tags: flowers, NYC, photography
Restaurants like to use window boxes filled with flowers as a visual barrier between their sidewalk dining areas and the common sidewalk areas. As a result, flowers such as this are common (although still gorgeous).
Another sign that spring is here.
Red Ranunculus, Ranunculus abortivus, in a flower box outside a NYC restaurant.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger].
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