This week’s photo, courtesy of David Tan, shows a large rock in the Japanese garden section of the Narrows Botanical Garden, with a spindly winter tree peeking out [or possibly photobombing?] over a bamboo fence.
It was taken on January 19, 2013.
To see more of David’s spellbinding snapshots, please visit his blog at dtanlog.blogspot.com.
The accompanying image, courtesy of roving Bath Beach shutterbug David Tan, shows a fully-suited bee keeper looking a bit like Neil Armstrong [RIP] as he prepares to harvest some honey at the Narrows Botanical Garden.
It was taken on October 13, 2012.
To see more of David’s extraordinary exposures, please visit his blog at dtan.blogspot.com.
If you have a photo you’d like us to publish as part of the Seen In Bay Ridge photo series, please send it to info@bayridgeodyssey.com. Be sure to let us know where and when the picture was taken, as well as how to credit the image (i.e. by your real name, pen name, anonymously, etc.).
This story was originally published on August 27, but you were on vacation then, weren’t you? So we’re republishing it so you don’t miss it.
Bay Ridge Sci-fi fans, get your popcorn ready.
There will be a special outdoor screening of the 1950s science fiction classic Forbidden Planet at the Narrows Botanical Garden on Friday, September 7, beginning at 8 p.m.
The film, which starred the late Leslie Nielsen during his pre-Airplane! dramatic acting days, is considered a groundbreaking film for the genre.
Forbidden Planet was the first movie of its kind to be set entirely on another, faraway planet. It also featured Robby the Robot – one of the first film robots to “display a distinct personality” as a bona fide supporting character.
Additionally, it was one of the first motion pictures to use an entirely electronic musical score.
The screening will run approximately two and a half hours.
The Narrows Botanical Garden is located at 7200-7398 Shore Road. For more information, please visit narrowsbg.org, or call (718) 748-4810.
Remember to check out the Bay Ridge Odyssey Events Calender for the latest neighborhood happenings.
This week’s Seen In Bay Ridge Weekender image, by roving Bath Beach shutterbug David Tan, shows a member of the Narrows Botanical Garden gathering some aromatic lavender “to be sold.”
If you think lavender plants aren’t that valuable, keep in mind that “a few trays of lavender” were among the items taken from the garden by some apparently picky thieves back in April.
The photo was taken on August 4, 2012.
To see more of David’s serious snapshots, please visit his blog at dtan.blogspot.com.
We’ll see you back here on Tuesday. In the meantime, have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend.
If you have a photo you’d like us to publish as part of the Seen In Bay Ridge photo series, please send it to info@bayridgeodyssey.com. Be sure to let us know where and when the picture was taken, as well as how to credit the image (i.e. by your real name, pen name, anonymously, etc.).
Image source: emilydickinsonridesabmx via Flickr.
The Narrows Botanical Garden has become the target of vandals for the second time in as many weeks.
Narrows Board of Trustees President Richard Haugland claims that a $200 magnolia tree recently had most of its branches broken off overnight. Then just a few days later, he says someone sheared the bark off a sapling.
Haugland called the damage, which occurred near the garden’s entrance and shares similarities with vandalism discovered last year, suspicious, as reported by Will Bredderman in a provocative piece for Brooklyn Daily.
An article from a few days earlier featured fellow gardener and CB10 board member Greg Ahl bemoaning the city’s refusal to build a wall as part of a pedestrian bridge project on the Belt Parkway – which abuts the community garden. Other than serving as a sound barrier, landscape designer Jimmy Johnson told Brooklyn Daily that the wall would help keep thieves and vandals out.