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Just off one of Staten Island's amazing Greenbelt trails.

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Odd man out

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Backhoe bucket planter

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The pale blue flowers

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of the versatile chicory plant

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A stream resurfaces

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This happens sometimes in Staten Island. You can get a better sense of things from this aerial photo.

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That fish was how big?

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Porcelain berry vine

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Its fruit looks like a cross between an Easter egg, a grape, and a potato, and it's coming to get you!

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Two-tone peppers

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Globe amaranth

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The things that look like round purple flowers are actually structures of bracts; the flowers themselves are tiny little trumpets, visible in this photo as yellow/white specks growing amidst the purple (you can see a closer shot here).

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Amen, brother

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Bitter melon

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This hideous monstrosity is good for you!

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1959 Nash Metropolitan

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Transco pipeline

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Delivering natural gas from the Gulf Coast to New York City

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La Luz del Mundo

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You don't forget that building once you've seen it. (We came upon a local congregation of this controversial church back in Jackson Heights.)

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Portal of the day

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Coming soon: a new house of worship for Staten Island's St. George Malankara Orthodox Church of India