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Fun April Wrap Up - Tulips, Earth Day, Plein April and Palindrome Week

Fun April Wrap Up - Tulips, Earth Day, Plein April and Palindrome Week

Week 18 Day 116 of 2024 - April 25

Rosieness Revue
April 25th, 2024

As a native New Yorker, April has always meant tulips to me. They bloom early and often in the city, where there are no deer to eat them and they are planted in window boxes and tree belts and in the Park Avenue Traffic Malls. As a member of the lily family there are 3,000 registered varieties. Cultivation began in the Netherlands in 1593- highlighted by Tulipmania in the 17th century as tulips became a coveted luxury item, but today they can be found around the world.

10 Amazing Tulip Farms to Visit in the United States

Tulips might have a short blooming season, but for the brief time they're around, they're glorious. They're pretty enough in a vase, but there is nothing quite like a field.

moneyinc.com/amazing-tulip-farms-to-visit-in-the-united-states

Wicked Tulips Flower Farms in New England - Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Wicked Tulips has the largest u-pick tulip fields in New England! Tiptoe through more than one million tulips, experience the sights, sounds, and smells of spring on a historic farm and bring home a fresh hand picked bouquet of the most amazing tulips you have ever seen.

wickedtulips.com

The Fund for Park Avenue

The Fund for Park Avenue is responsible for planting and maintaining the trees and flowers on the Park Avenue Malls. Seasonal plantings include spring tulips, summer begonias and fall chrysanthemums. Annual mall maintenance consists of mowing, weeding, trash collection, pruning of trees and foundation plantings.

fundforparkavenue.org/pages/malls-planting-project

The Ultimate Guide To See The Tulip Fields In 2024 in Amsterdam

Get ready to see 7+ million tulips in full bloom! In this guide, you'll find everything you need to know to visit Keukenhof and the surrounding areas. As locals we can provide you with the best tips so that you don't miss out on this rare opportunity!

welikeamsterdam.com/ultimate-guide-tulip-fields

Tulip Mania - Spring 2024 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society

See over 50,000 Tulips in Bloom this April in Metrowest Boston.

www.masshort.org/tulip-mania?loxi_pathname=%2Flist%2Ffuture%2F1

Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses

Here are two organizations that are collecting them as are many local libraries.

Astronomers Without Borders is accepting eclipse glasses donations to send to underserved communities. Glasses can be dropped off at Warby Parker locations until April 30th .
Eclipse Glasses USA is collecting glasses to send to school children in Latin America to enjoy the upcoming annular eclipse this October. Undamaged glasses can be mailed to: Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC, PO BOX 50571, Provo, UT 84605

The Cicadas are coming

Trillions of Cicadas are expected in the Midwest and Southeast states from Mid May through late for the first time in 200 years. Cicadas have the longest life cycle of any insect, waiting 13 or 17 years to emerge, but once they're above ground, things move pretty fast. Once they emerge, they mate, lay eggs and die in about five to eight weeks. They are not harmful to humans or pets and actually are a valuable food source for birds and other predators and add nutrients to the soils as they decompose. .

Where billions of cicadas will emerge this spring (and over the next decade), in one map

Cicadas will hear the call of spring. And then you’ll hear their mating calls, too.

www.vox.com/science/24047261/cicada-brood-xix-xiii-19-13-map

Palindrome Week April 20 - 29

April ends with rare ‘palindrome’ of dates that read the same forward, backward

The last time the dates fell into this format was in March of 2023. The next round will happen in May of 2025.

www.yahoo.com/news/april-ends-rare-palindrome-dates-191259721.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAALcl9AjqzBC4tsDulfaCxBtRqpoyPGr7kTalmOQAUMa2cxdM3aZEAAdVomT7RAlMzz1VRIxv0sZyMkTftzOeiLJ8AUocpAcGq4jnOL2jk5B5cj-j1HG5LLGQ2XnwHHCgqv9HLEXqjln9ZS0kqtD8nj9lTrKn2PklNZftQrRNo4W

Everyone can make a difference

Debby Lee Cohen, Founder of Cafeteria Culture.

After her younger daughter announced that she didn't want to eat school food anymore because styrofoam trays were "killing the polar bears," Debby Lee started working to eliminate styrofoam from New York City Public School cafeterias. Always a uniter but never afraid to push boundaries, Debby Lee advocated with constant pressure on decision-makers to eliminate foam trays in school cafeterias, and didn't stop until her mission was accomplished. This grassroots victory eliminated over half a billion plastic foam trays per year from student meals, landfills, and incinerators in New York City and now 18 other cities across the U.S.

mailchi.mp/cafeteriaculture/4wkvzyyac3-17377971

This Week in History

1970 The first Earth Day | April 22

Earth Day, an event to increase public awareness of the world’s environmental problems, is celebrated in the U.S. for the first time. Millions of Americans, including students from thousands of colleges and universities, participated in rallies, marches and educational programs across the country. An estimated 250,000 people marched on 5th Ave in Manhattan

www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-earth-day

Stream The National Parks

Stream The National Parks with CBS - Watch on Paramount Plus

No tent, no backpack, no problem. Starting Earth Day, April 22, live stream seven U.S. national parks with Paramount+, from sunup to sundown.

www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-national-parks

Words of the Week

10 Words from Taylor Swift Songs (Merriam's Version)

Look what you made us do

www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/taylor-swift-words

What We are Reading

The Lede by Calvin Trillin

As always, Trillin, as a master journalist writes with empathy, humor and clever prose

amzn.to/4aLO3Gt

What We are Watching

Franklin (TV Mini Series 2024– ) ⭐ 7.0 | Biography, Drama, History

| TV-MA Michael Douglas is Franklin

www.imdb.com/title/tt18351584/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

This Week in Music

April 25 is Ella Fitzgerald’s Birthday

This Week in Art

From our Readers

Secrets of the Octopus (TV Mini Series 2024– ) ⭐ 9.0 | Documentary, Adventure

Secrets of the Octopus: With Alex Schnell, Paul Rudd. Octopuses are like aliens on Earth: three hearts, blue blood and the ability to squeeze through a space the size of their eyeballs, but the secrets of the octopus are more extraordinary than we ever imagined. Streaming on Hulu.

www.imdb.com/title/tt26351130/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk