starting the day with our first visit to Central Park - immediately we happened upon Strawberry Fields!
(minutes later a guy was berating people for stepping or sitting on the mosaic - oops, shame on me! I had followed what others did before me, but thinking about it I could see his point: he just wanted to preserve the memorial)
crazy green colored water! but we saw several painted turtles paddling around happily enough...
a site of much romance - this particular couple put on a show from one side of the lake to the other, making out like the world was about to end: