Escaping daffodils.
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Read moreDetailsDecember pulls no punches/It tells it to you straight
Read moreDetails'August' is currently missing.
Read moreDetailsWhen I needed a photograph of cherry blossoms to announce the start of this year's season, I turned to WSR's resident flower-and-tree photographer/poet, Mildred Alpern.
Read moreDetailsThe saying that March comes in like a lion/And then goes out like a lamb/Suggests an animal sequence/Of an unlikely caravan
Read moreDetailsIn the past, if we were ever short of good copy for the Rag, I would turn to Mildred Alpern, a longtime contributor of poetry and photographs.
Read moreDetailsOnly some sunsets are truly newsworthy and Wednesday night's was a doozy. Check out these photos from Mildred Alpern looking out over the Hudson.
Read moreDetailsIt's raining on the first day of the annual Tulip Festival on 89th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam, but Mildred Alpern got over
Read moreDetailsWhen it's cold, smoke rising from city roofs is often picturesque, as in these photos from Mildred Alpern. But what exactly is that white gas?
Read moreDetailsMildred Alpern caught a rare and awesome sight on Friday: workers building a water tower on top of a building on 87th Street.
Read moreDetailsMildred Alpern, whose vivid photos of nature and lobby Christmas trees have graced West Side Rag in the past, has a new show up at the St. Agnes Library on
Read moreDetailsHey, at least all this rain is good for something. Mildred Alpern took these photos in the neighborhood.
Read moreDetailsIt's been awful cold in the past few days and it doesn't figure to let up for at least a week. Mildred Alpern took these photos of a
Read moreDetailsOne tree in Riverside Park is already in the swing of spring, and it's still February! Mildred Alpern got some great shots of the cherry blossoms.
Read moreDetailsThey’re hangers-on/Refuse to leave the party.
Read moreDetailsAutumn starts in late September/When day and night equate in time....
Read moreDetailsNotable are window attractions. Geraniums grace window sills. They open to the warm sunlight in decorative pots.
Read moreDetailsIcicles drip from a tenement fire escape/Sheets of snowdust skid off a sloped roof,/surprising pedestrians with a freezing shower
Read moreDetailsJanus looks in both directions/From year retired to minted new
Read moreDetailsThey’re hangers-on/Refuse to leave the party.
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