Hunting For Wonder In Western New York
Highland Park Blossoms

After spending the afternoon in Rochester’s Highland Park, I told my guy it was like the equivalent of New York’s Central Park. As it turns out it was designed by the same man who designed the iconic Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted–the founder of American landscape architecture.

As I tend to do in the spring, I hunt blossoms–flowering trees, the first daffodils, the tulips, irises… and later, roses. But this park had me on the ground fawning over an unfamiliar bloom: Glory of the Snow. They covered huge swaths of land–their bright blue contrasting the still barren trees. I was way into them. To follow, my tiptoe through the blue.