It was a cloudy day but the sun showed up in the afternoon.
The park was pretty lively: a group of young girls taking photos of themselves; a picnic couple; a guy with a heavy-duty black thermo – for coffee? A yogi, and a few couples and a couple of singles – one young kid was smoking weed.
I’ve visited this state park in the spring of 2014. Today’s weather, is as gorgeous as last Friday’s when we visited Bayard Cutting Arboretum. Some the memorable corners at the park, the Coe Hall, the Manor House and the little cottage at the rectangle fountain, and the Alphabetic City.
As to the two arboretums, each has her unique advantages: Planting Fields is more of an arboretum while Bayard Cutting is more of a park on the water – maybe if I visit it again during the season, I would have different impressions. We also stopped by
The purple peas and the hanging baskets 高高在上
The Dahlia garden: the beautiful flowers remind me to dream of Georgia O’Keeffe. The foursome reminds me of the flowers at the Buddhist temples – so perfect, almost fake.
The Hoffman visitor center and café ⇓ There is a regional archives but it’s not open to public.
There is, at least one private residence … how marvelous!
Children’s Cottage is painted pink
The statues
At the Planting Fields Arboretum, the home of William Robertson Coe. He was a railroad and insurance executive, husband of Mary “Mai” Huttleston, daughter of Henry H. Rogers, of Standard Oil fortune. The chimneys are pretty striking, and the lawn is great for yoga.
The mansions on Long Island Gold Coast are not as nicely kept as the ones at Rhode Island, where strong stream of tourists support.
The cute little cottage by the rectangle fountain, near the Coe Hall at the Planting Fields.
At Planting Fields. It’s closed to the public but some staff are there. The white house looks in need of renovation and up keeping. Many areas in the park have Abelia x grandiflora (Glossy Abelia), the same semi-evergreen shrub as mine, in the front yard.
After Planting Fields, we come here to Glen Cove to visit and did some on the stud yoga. The beach has lot of cement which is sticky and elastic. There are a few stones/boulders from 18,000 years ago during the most recent advance of the continental glaciers. These boulders are called erratics due to the fact that they came from so far away, totally not expected here, geologically.
225 Bryant Ave,
Roslyn, NY 11576
I pass by this little wonder numerous times on my way to Sea Cliff. Today finally stopped by after Planting Fields, unplanned. This seven-acre site was the home of was poet and civil leader William Cullen Bryant’s country home. There are three small parking lots: one by the house in the middle, is for the staff; one on the southern end, by the bridge, which the Gothic Revival style Mill is in between, and one on the northern end, with a portable bathroom. Many flowers are still blooming.
It seems all the benches are endowed, such as this Denis M. Platt, at the park.
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