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The cherry blossoms here reached peak on Easter Saturday and Sunday. Then we were hit by a three-day nor’easter. Was afraid might knock them down, but the flowers stayed up well.

 

 

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Entrance, new Essex County CourthouseApril 7, 2021

01 Taken in ’21, at the entrance to the new Essex County Courthouse.
If you would like to join Ms. Rosa Parks for our bus ride …

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In my neighborhoodApril 8, 2024

In my neighborhood …

This style of residential architecture has been used often, in North Jersey in recent decades, for buildings from single-family homes to 5-unit apartments. They’re known, colloquially, as ‘Bayonne boxes’.

 

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In my neighborhoodApril 8, 2024
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In my neighborhoodApril 8, 2024

‘Tis the season …

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Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJApril 8, 2024

So there were crowds out to see Branch Brook Park on the 6th and 7th, enough to tie up traffic throughout the North Ward, Meself, decided to get up early, beat crowds, Monday morn.

There are about 5.300 flowering cherry trees in Branch Brook Park, of 18 different varieties – here are some of them. These pictures are in order, roughly, earlier to later, going north to south thru the park.

Here’s the parking lot of the Cherry Blossom Welcome Center

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and the Welcome Center building, behind a playground

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Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJApril 8, 2024

Saplings in bloom

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Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJApril 8, 2024

Blossoms around the curve.

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    Trivia Man

    I lived in Morris County for a few years and i still miss April in New Jersey every year. Thanks for the pictures, that park is a marvel when the cherry blossoms are popping.

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    stinger

    Lovely! Three hundred in one park would seem like a lot, but 5,300 — wow! And so many varieties!

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    Trivia Man

    Anybody that likes flowering trees – well worth a trip to NJ fir this Newark Cherry festival. Bonus: just drive around neighborhoods and bask in the explosion if color that is everywhere.

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    Ohio Mom

    We were in New Jersey two years ago for a bar mitzvah and filled one afternoon with a visit to the Newark art museum. It is fabulous!

    Like the Brooklyn Museum, overshadowed by the world reknown museums in Manhattan. But both would be standouts anywhere else.

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    Anyway

    New jersey, represent! I love driving around the NorthEast in April – so colorful. Thanks for sharing.

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    JAFD

    Thanks very much for the compliments !

    And Happy Beltane / May Day / Law Day to all you jackals !

    (Got email yesterday afternoon, ‘your tranche of jurors not needed today, be ready for tomorrow’.)

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    way2blue

    I was lucky to be in Seattle when the cherry trees on the UW campus were in full bloom.  Stunning.  JAFD—You’re lucky to have such a springtime show in your town too.

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    Yutsano

    @way2blue: ​I’ll give Huskyville credit for their campus at least. It is stunningly beautiful in the spring. Granted I’ve heard them grumble about the hills there and I reserve the right to give them all the side-eye.

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