I'm a little late in getting around to posting these. I took them a month ago to the day. They're a few samples from my latest explorations of Central Park.




For references here's a link to an aerial view of roughly where I was. These three shots were taken around the area labeled "The Pool."

Directly north of that, is an area known as "The Great Hill," and while walking around certain parts there, I got the feeling that if you were dropped down there without so much as the slightest clue about where you were, you would not immediately be able to tell you were New York City. It was quiet, there was almost no sound of cars (though there was an intermittent noisy helicopter, it being Marathon Sunday at the time) and there were almost no people around. Accustomed to crowds, I found it a surprising respite from the city's usual bustle. At first glance at least, it looks almost as wild as some of the places I used to hike out west, right down to the dead trees left to rot. There was almost no visual evidence that I was in a major metropolitan area, until I saw a sign that broke the illusion in a very New York kind of way.