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Weekday Sketchers at Brooklyn Botanic Garden Friday

Can't get enough cherry blossoms!! 

This week we will visit the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Friday (free admission before noon), to capture the beautiful cherry blossoms, magnolias, lilacs and tulips that are currently in bloom. 

Sorry for the change in schedule from the one posted, but this is the time for the cherry blossoms, so let's get out there and capture them in our sketchbooks!

DATE:  FRIDAY, April 26, 2019

STARTING TIME: 10:00 AM. ( for early risers: BBG opens at 8:00 AM)

 At 10:15 we will enter the gardens.   If you come later, just make your way to the cherry blossoms and look for us.  Lunch will be at 12:30 at the Cafe.

LOCATION: BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDENS

                       990 Washington Ave, Brooklyn

NOTE:  We will meet at the entrance on Washington Ave behind the Brooklyn Museum.  The entrance on Eastern Parkway is closed. 

DIRECTIONS:  PLEASE CHECK THE BBG WEB SITE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING DIRECTIONS: https://www.bbg.org/visit/directions

Please RSVP directly to Raylie Dunkel at raylie@verizon.net.  Looking for us? Call/text Raylie at 201-978-6387.

Some points to be aware of: 

•  BBG will be very crowded. Try to accommodate the directions that guards might give you about where you sit or use of a stool. (you might want to bring a cushion to sit on the ground)  
• You can use watercolors. 
• There is no food allowed in the gardens. 
• We will meet for lunch at the cafe at 12:30.