Happy Fourth

To anyone reading this, remind everyone you meet of the significance of this day and how it means more than just a chance to sleep in and gorge on grilled meats later.   The sad truth is that more people in France than here know what July 4th means.  Heck, they even sent us a statue because of it!

Yes, that is Lady Liberty herself seen through the trees of Battery Park off of State Street, all the way down at the bottom tip of Manhattan.  This is a nice view of a French statue seen through Willow Oaks (Quercus Phellos) and London Planetrees (Plantanus x Acerifolia), a lovely reminder of our European, Colonial, and Native roots.  The park has a great website where one can see a plant database, including a bloom time monitor, for everything that grows in this nice green space.  It can be found here.  The Battery also features an urban farm!

Enjoy the day, and remember to get historical as much as relaxed.