a day at brooklyn botanical & brooklyn museum

[Kefir King]

Originally Posted by mathjak107

yes but we got free admission through culture pass from our queen’s library card

Thank you for answering my question instead of diverting to the "joys" of driving and parking in the City.
I will reserve a culture pass for the first warm week.

The museum thanks those whose racist fear of public transit keeps them hidden in a 3000 pound metal box and paying $25 to park the box. I long ago gave up that stupidity.

[mathjak107]

Originally Posted by Kefir King

Thank you for answering my question instead of diverting to the "joys" of driving and parking in the City.
I will reserve a culture pass for the first warm week.

the culture pass is only good in most place once …kind of a try and buy at most places .

we use our ny botanical membership to get in to brooklyn and queens botanical on a regular basis

the culture pass was only good once at the brooklyn museum but for nyc residents you can pay whatever you want.

the ny botanical garden membership is also good at old westbury gardens where we go often

[YorktownGal]

As a child, I took gardening lessons at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. We planted seeds which were planted in container gardens. I picked my veggies and brought them home. It was a life changing experience. Fifty years later, I still grow my own veggies. When I worked at the NY Botanical Garden, it had a similar program for kids. Years later, my daughter did a similar program at the Queens Botanical Garden.

The Japanese practice "forest bathing."

Forest bathing—basically just being in the presence of trees—became part of a national public health program in Japan in 1982 when the forestry ministry coined the phrase shinrin-yoku and promoted topiary as therapy. Nature appreciation—picnicking en masse under the cherry blossoms, for example—is a national pastime in Japan, so forest bathing quickly took.

https://qz.com/804022/health-benefit...forest-bathing

I felt like I was forest bathing just looking at OP wonderful pictures!