Sentences with phrase «of public gardens»

Anyway, to get to the sea I had to walk through a small area of public gardens in front of a hotel where a marquee had been set up for some forthcoming event.

Actually they're not so far off the mark — due to lots of public gardens and parks the ecological situation in Aurora seems to be absolutely perfect.

Image credits: photos 1 - 7 culled from linked websites; 8 via Friends of the Public Garden; 9 via Boston College; 10 (also thumbnail) via FreeDigitalPhotos.net; compilation graphic by Christine Koh

Don't be surprised to see a few extra ducklings in the park on Sunday — the Friends of the Public Garden are hosting Duckling Day, a Mother's Day tradition for more than 30 years.

Open year - round, Wave Hill is a spectacular jewel of a public garden overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades in the Bronx.

I've always loved self - contained worlds like movie theaters, airports and libraries, but this was the first time I've had the opportunity to work on the grounds of a public garden.

Not exact matches

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

As the needs and demands of entrepreneurs change, we are adapting the ecosystem's traditional public and private structures,» said Mike Morin, CEO of the new Start Garden Ecosystem.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

But we are being continually marginalized in our own denominational gardens when we attend to the current public fascination, like environmentalism, without contemplating the context of our work.

One day, as our children or their children or their children's children stroll in gardens, debate in public places, or poke through the ashes of a wrecked civilization, they may not be moved to call us blessed.

Yet it would be overly romanticizing to say that everything in modern Japan shows a perfect blending of humans and the environment; that is more likely a private achievement, expressed more in one's enclosed garden than in the public arena — witness the beer bottles littering the pilgrim's path up Mt. Fuji!

Students at Boston Public Schools are finding more prominent placement of meat - free dishes in their cafeterias on Mondays and are filling their trays with black bean burrito bowls, garden fresh salads topped with chickpeas, protein - packed chili, and more.

Throughout the year, PUBlic House's patio garden remains relaxing with the hum of friends and family dining on fine food and drink that uncommonly delight them.

Part of the attraction of the Chile Pepper Institute is its Demonstration Garden, where some 150 varieties of chiles from around the world are grown each year to educate the public.

But with his typical zeal and enthusiasm, Lord Harris «adopted» the gardens, finding a new director, William Purdie, and giving the garden many cash donations and other gifts like a Wardian Case (a portable miniature greenhouse) in 1854 and at one time a gift of «# 200 sterling, to be appropriated in prizes for the best specimens of native farming and garden produce brought forward at a public competition.»

He is the host of two public television programs, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table and the syndicated 30 - minute show P. Allen Smith Garden Style.

Open to the public during the April to November growing season, the gardens offer Chicagoans the opportunity to connect with the process of growing healthy, delicious food.

The pathology of this collapse is obvious: the politics of the ring, which are based on petty feuds and revenge: the failure of Madison Square Garden to put money back into the sport that did so much to make its reputation; the lack of a commanding figure to lead the game out of the wilderness, to bring a semblance of organization and thought to it, in brief to revive public interest.

The town has public gardens with roses the size of a human head and a Tudor - style spa built next to the dead geothermal lake with a bowling green straight out of a British period piece.

Some of the land will likely be used to replace a playground that will be removed as part of a new public garden going in west of the conservatory.

Not surprisingly, I fell in love with the bits of wild that creep into the city, the backyard, rooftop and public gardens, and the ways in which people beautify their space (is it strange that I want a stoop to decorate / garden on now?).

Beautiful gardens, great views of the city's skyline, historic sculptures, and swan boats — you really can't get more Boston than the Boston Public Garden!

Janis Groomes, food service director at Northport Public Schools, knows the power of school gardens to get kids interested in eating fruits and vegetables, even ones that are unusual...

Picnics in the Public Garden — perhaps we'll grab a few cheeses at Savenor's and a great bottle of white wine.

And the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, while it will provide educational programming and demonstrations, will not set up a display garden at Navy Pier, said Sue Markgraf, manager of public relaGarden in Glencoe, while it will provide educational programming and demonstrations, will not set up a display garden at Navy Pier, said Sue Markgraf, manager of public relagarden at Navy Pier, said Sue Markgraf, manager of public relations.

The 12,000 - square - foot mansion and its 2 acres of lawn and gardens are closed to the public until Sept. 9, when the American Society of Interior Designers begins showcase - home tours.

The Boston Common gets into the spirit on Thursday, with the lighting of the Common, the Public Garden, and the Common Christmas tree that traveled all the way from Halifax.

This year, Denver Public Schools students have already harvested more than 1,000 pounds of garden produce for school lunches as part of a program cooked up by school food service director Leo Lesh.

Kids are catered for at these type of hotels, and there are subway train rides, children's museums, public gardens — a real look and learn experience.

An informal poll of about 20 residents at Wednesday's public meeting showed the skaters and residents preferred the Garden Plots site over the two options at Knoch Park.

Members of Glen Ellyn's 16 - member committee showed two judges 36 garden sites at schools, homes and public areas.

Glen Ellyn's involvement was a community effort involving College of DuPage, school and park districts, library, chamber of commerce, village, and volunteers who showed their home gardens or helped plant public areas.

Your membership also provides the Village with the support necessary to care for our historic buildings, priceless collection of early American artifacts, heritage breed animals and heirloom gardens as well as our expert costumed interpreters and outstanding educational programming for both the general public and school children alike.

We wandered through of our favorite Beacon Hill side streets and then over to the Public Garden.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

Lumley's so - called «garden bridge» will be clad in copper and cost a total of # 175 million to build, making it the most expensive public footbridge in the Western world.

Located in the Tremont section of The Bronx, with easy access to public transportation, pharmacies, grocery stores, and public parks, the seven - story building will feature energy efficient construction, including windows, fixtures, and an integrated solar array as well as a rooftop terrace and community garden.

After weeks of limiting his public appearances to carefully scripting campaign stops and press conferences, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo has finally emerged from his Rose Garden.

CHELSEA — A mother reminiscing about watching the blue jays and beekeepers at the East Village's Green Oasis Garden was one of 80 attendees who showed up at public hearing Tuesday on new rules proposed for community gardens.

Community gardeners and many supporting organizations including NYCCGC attended to communicate the value and needs of urban ag in our city's public gardens.

Quinn asked for specific provisions to the new rules including the automatic renewal of licenses for gardening groups that are fully compliant with Parks Department rules, the translation of relevant public notices into all languages necessary for the communities supporting them, and a mechanism that would allow GreenThumb — a Parks Department group charged with overseeing community gardens — a 180 - day grace period to find and license new patrons for gardens abandoned by the groups operating them.

The project will be located entirely in Hempstead Town, traversing the Villages of Garden City, Malverne and Lynbrook, PSEG said, primarily on public roadways.

«It worries me that whenever the Garden Bridge Trust runs into financial trouble, the Department for Transport releases more taxpayers» money before construction has even started,» said chair of the Committee of Public Accounts Meg Hillier MP.

«The decision on tuition fees in autumn 2010, which represented a high profile «broken promise», exemplified this, and with memories of the Rose Garden moment still fresh in the collective memory, this narrative embedded in the public mind.

At 3:30 p.m., Hochul tours the College of Nursing and Public Health with Rep. Kathleen Rice, Adelphi University, 1 South Ave., Garden City, Long Island.

The interview on public radio this April, a long - planned event to discuss a range of topics, seemed like a garden - variety appearance for Preet Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan.

«Salgado could declare that he is a homosexual, go to the City Hall Clerk, get a license, marry another man in a public garden, and become the very first male New York City mayoral candidate who is officially married to a man,» Mr. Diaz, a booster of Mr. Salgado, wrote in his ongoing series of «What You Should Know» statements.

The Master Gardeners are trained volunteers who provide the public with gardening programs and activities that include their annual tour of the Mohonk Mountain House gardens.

The second was the Rose Garden approach to our first years in coalition, during which we sought to prove coalition could work by avoiding public expressions of disunity.