Sidewalks
My friend and I rent a two room apartment that locates on 147th Street and Beech Street in Flushing, Queens, New York City. I know, recently I was talking about how bad is my neighborhood and how I dislike about it. But after I look at the pictures I took around my neighborhood today, I was thinking maybe it is just because of the winter. I really don’t like the winter in New York City, too much snow, wind and darkness. It makes everything looks so miserable, the sky is always dark and low. Trashes are everywhere blew by the wind. Some of them got on the trees and stayed there, even the trees are already looking bad enough with no leaves.
Maybe all those bad feelings about my neighborhood are just all cause by this bad season that I never really liked before. However, I almost forget how this place uses to look like in the spring, summer and autumn. Everything will be so nice when those times come. There will be beautiful flowers and plants grow in my neighbor’s front yard. I guess I have a neighbor is big fan about growing plants. Because in his/her front yard, you can always see all kinds of flowers, trees and other plants that I can’t even call out their names. It is just like a small forest when look in their yard from the outside. Well it is always a pleasant thing to do.
There are also many big trees around my neighborhood. Some of them grew on both sides of the sidewalks, which I like a lot. Trees have so many functions to our nature and environment in many good ways as we all know. Especially trees are very important to big cities like New York. They are natural air purifier that could take away all kinds of dirt and pollutions. Beside that, one thing I like about trees the most is that they reduces the UV ray from the sun. So I think they have done something big to prevent people from getting skin cancer by doing that. And that is one thing I really like about my sidewalks here around my house. By the fall, the leaves on trees will turn to gold, yellow or red. With a quiet environment like this place I live, everywhere is just too beautiful to look at. Oh I really those days.
Unfortunately in this bad weather everything looks different. The streets are big and empty. And the construction of a building that is two blocks away, they blocked one block of sidewalk for us to walk. That really makes me feel bad and nervous every time when I have to walk on the street with the cars are coming toward me from all directions. =_=
My friend and I rent a two room apartment that locates on 147th Street and Beech Street in Flushing, Queens, New York City. I know, recently I was talking about how bad is my neighborhood and how I dislike about it. But after I look at the pictures I took around my neighborhood today, I was thinking maybe it is just because of the winter. I really don’t like the winter in New York City, too much snow, wind and darkness. It makes everything looks so miserable, the sky is always dark and low. Trashes are everywhere blew by the wind. Some of them got on the trees and stayed there, even the trees are already looking bad enough with no leaves.
Maybe all those bad feelings about my neighborhood are just all cause by this bad season that I never really liked before. However, I almost forget how this place uses to look like in the spring, summer and autumn. Everything will be so nice when those times come. There will be beautiful flowers and plants grow in my neighbor’s front yard. I guess I have a neighbor is big fan about growing plants. Because in his/her front yard, you can always see all kinds of flowers, trees and other plants that I can’t even call out their names. It is just like a small forest when look in their yard from the outside. Well it is always a pleasant thing to do.
There are also many big trees around my neighborhood. Some of them grew on both sides of the sidewalks, which I like a lot. Trees have so many functions to our nature and environment in many good ways as we all know. Especially trees are very important to big cities like New York. They are natural air purifier that could take away all kinds of dirt and pollutions. Beside that, one thing I like about trees the most is that they reduces the UV ray from the sun. So I think they have done something big to prevent people from getting skin cancer by doing that. And that is one thing I really like about my sidewalks here around my house. By the fall, the leaves on trees will turn to gold, yellow or red. With a quiet environment like this place I live, everywhere is just too beautiful to look at. Oh I really those days.
Unfortunately in this bad weather everything looks different. The streets are big and empty. And the construction of a building that is two blocks away, they blocked one block of sidewalk for us to walk. That really makes me feel bad and nervous every time when I have to walk on the street with the cars are coming toward me from all directions. =_=
Front yard of the house I live.
The sidewalk
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