Collected Item: “Finding Beauty in a COVID World: Running Alongside the Locked Up Botanical Garden”
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Finding Beauty in a COVID World: Running Alongside the Locked Up Botanical Garden
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Photograph
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The New York Botanical Garden happens to be near where I reside in the Bronx. Every summer and spring my friends and I plan a few trips to this lovely place to experience all of the natural beauty of the garden. However, this year however, the “Botans,” as we like to call it, was closed for the entirety of the spring and a large chunk of summer due to the pandemic. I believe they are just now, in early August, starting to open with limited capacity. I decided to capture this photo on my run to illustrate how the garden’s beauty is able to penetrate the surrounding community even from outside the gates. You can see the lavender peeking up over the gate and we were able to take a look inside through the openings of the fence to appreciate the park’s beauty. My mask reads “New York Strong.”
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#BotanicalGarden #FordhamUniversity #NYC #Bronx #COVID #Nature #SOCI2960 #NewYorkBotanicalGarden #pandemicsummer
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Greta Weinrich
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2020-06