Beauty in the Boroughs: Brooklyn
And Vegan Food

Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal is heavily polluted. The vivid colors of its contaminants caught my eye this day. It was like a Jackson Pollack canvas moving down the water’s surface.

Is it horrible that I love how this looks? Yes, yes it is. Brooklyn-beautiful. Not beautiful-beautiful.

My bridge in a delightful summer evening.

Hold on to the handrail.

Early to work, a stroll in Pratt Institute‘s sculpture gardens. The campus has student work all about. And it’s free.

The wacky park bench was my favorite.

Having such a stressful summer position necessitates a lot of decompression. The pretty Habana Outpost has a wonderful summer drink–a ginger pineapple vodka lemonade.

Frying in the 90 degree weather.

An Ovenly cookie on the busy Brooklyn street, one of my favorite little rewards for personal productivity. My Golden Rule: Do onto yourself as you do for others.

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Tipsy Scoop in Williamsburg has “adult” ice creams and sorbets. A multi-tasking way to cool down with a friend. This is the mango margarita sorbet and strawberry white sangria sorbet.

When you have to wait for your Apple appointment, the all-vegan Next Level Burger. Here is my SoCal Burger, a house-made mushroom quinoa patty, tempeh bacon, avocado & house-made Special Sauce. And the best part: the tater tots.