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N.A. Ferrell
I was walking in the Brooklyn NYC neighborhood of Carroll Gardens on January 11, 2025. Something from across the street caught my attention. I approached and saw that it was a courageous, slightly past-its-prime decorative pumpkin in an orange knit hat sitting atop a definitely past-its-prime pumpkin, standing athwart the winter elements.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/brave-pumpkin-in-a-hat/

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#NYC #Brooklyn #CarrollGardens #Brownstones #Yard #Ivy #Pumpkins #KnitHat #Hats #Pixel6a #GooglePixel #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal
Photograph of the front yard to a brownstone, somewhat overgrown with green ivy. The photo is taken through three cast iron fence bars, all painted black. Between the second and third bars is a slightly wilted orange decorative pumpkin in an orange knit hat. The pumpkin is sitting on top of a flattening decorative pumpkin.
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N.A. Ferrell
I published my review of the year that was on my website (The New Leaf Journal) in 2024. In so doing, I put together a list of our 81 most-visited articles (according to our entirely local page-view counter). In 6th place was my 2021 article about installing Ubuntu Touch on a 2013 Google Nexus 7 (UT no longer supports the device). 10th place was my 2021 article about installing LineageOS on the same device (no longer officially supported, although there is a ROM available). 30 and 37 were two 2021 articles about my Murena Teracube 2e phone running /e/ OS (phone no longer sold but /e/ does still push updates, so that's nice). 46th place was my 2023 article on DecSync, a neat syncting utility which has not seen an update in several years. What do all these articles have in common? They are OUTDATED, or more charitably, legacy posts about things I did or used at a time certain. But these articles continue to be big parts of The New Leaf Journal, so I wanted to reassure readers that all of the devices are still alive. (I may have some articles in store about some of them in 2025.) Note the keyboard is a Logitech K310, which I used until last spring and has been out of production for several years -- that article came in at 31st.

Link:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/01-02-24-the-81-most-visited-articles-of-2024/

Section Link:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/01-02-24-the-81-most-visited-articles-of-2024/#intermission-v

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#Tablets #GoogleNexus7 #AsusNexus7 #UbuntuTouch #UBPorts #LineageOS #FDroid #DecSync #Phone #Murena #Teracube2e #eOS #Keyboard #Logitech #LogitechK310 #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal
We see two Google Nexus 7 2013 tablets laid out next to each other above a keyboard and phone, all on a carpeted floor. The left tablet is open to the Ubuntu Touch launcher. The right tablet, running LineageOS, is open to F-Droid with the DecSync CC app in F-Droid. On the bottom, we have a gray and white Logitech K310 keyboard. Resting on the keyboard's numpad is a Teracube 2e phone open to the /e/ OS App Store.
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N.A. Ferrell
You may be wonder why I am posting a photograph of Silk cashew milk at the grocery store. I have only two things to say about the photo. Firstly, I took this photo in New York City, which is in the United States, which in turn writes dates mm/dd/yyyy. Secondly, I took this photo on December 12, 2024. The rest is up to you.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/sell-by-november-cashew-milk-in-december/

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#NYC #Brooklyn #GroceryStore #CashewMilk #Pixel6a #GrapheneOS #TheNewLeafJournal #NewLeafJournal
A photograph of the non-dairy milk section at the grocery store. The camera is focused on an orange carton of Silk cashew milk. The best-by date listed on the milk is "11 02 24." Because this is the United States, that corresponds to November 2, 2024.
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N.A. Ferrell
I drafted an article listing 54 things I learned in 2024. I wanted a featured image for the article. I searched my usual sources but did not find anything inspiring. Then I had an idea. Owls are wise. I have owls. I took the owls to my kitchen and took a photo. I call this photo "Fact: Nothing But Owls." There is nothing and no one here other than owls.

Article it goes with:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/54-things-i-learned-in-2024/

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#StillLifePhoto #Owls #Counter #Kokeshi #KokeshiDoll #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOSCamera #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal
A photograph of three owl figures standing side-by-side on a kitchen counter. The left owl is a small, shourt, round condiment container from Japan with big eyes, gray sides, and a white breast. The center owl is made of three pieces for holding envelopes and other light papers. It is dark wood and has a somewhat crudely carved front. The third owl is short, emerald green, and made of bar glass. There appears to be a brown kokeshi doll peaking out from behind the center owl, but I deny it.
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N.A. Ferrell
This may look like a dove sitting on a rock to the untrained eye. To the trained eye, this looks like a dove sitting on a sculpture in the Long Island City (Queens, NYC) Noguchi Museum's Sculpture Garden. See my article link below for a second dove image and my story about finding the dove in the Sculpture Garden.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/dove-on-sculpture-at-noguchi-museum/

Pixelfed photo from a few minutes earlier:
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/700068820851199360

#NYC #NewYorkCity #Queens #LongIslandCity #NoguchiMuseum #Noguchi #Sculpture #Stone #Dove #Bird #Brick #Shadows #Trees #Magnolias #Pixel3aXL #GooglePixel #LineageOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal
A dove sits on a plain, tall, thin stone sculpture in the Long Island City Noguchi Museum's sculpture garden. There is a taller black and gray checkered scuplture in the background in the back left. The brick facade of the Noguchi Museum is in the background. There are magnolia trees beginning to bloom in the backdrop toward the right of the image.
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N.A. Ferrell
I first saw BLOB DYLAN graffiti when I visited Bushwick, Brooklyn, in January 2021. Despite being a life-long resident of Brooklyn, that was only the second time I had been to Bushwick. I did not see any more BLOB DYLAN's prior to May 26, 2024, when I crossed into Bushwick for the third time. I was on about mile 18 of what would end up being a 22.6 mile walk, but that did not stop me from documenting my first BLOB in more than three years.

(Note: I was not 100% sure whether this was in Bushwick or Ridgewood until I checked a map. Fortunately, I made note of the fact I found BLOB at the intersection of Wycoff and DeKalb Avenues.)

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/new-blob-dylan-in-bushwick/

Original BLOB post on Pixelfed:
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/287222501422010368

#NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #Bushwick #BLOBDYLAN #Graffiti #Tag #Pixel6a #LineageOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal
Photograph of a utility poll. BLOB DYLAN is written in white on a rusted metal band.
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N.A. Ferrell
I came across this charming car with a cherry blossom design in the heart of Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, New York CIty. The find was fitting since there were many cherry blossom trees in the area when I stumbled upon the car on April 23, 2024.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/cherry-blossom-car-and-petals-in-brooklyn/

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#NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #CarrollGardens #Car #CherryBlossomSeason #CherryBlossoms #Pixel6a #LineageOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal
A parked white car with two cherry blossom branches with flowers painted on its left side doors.
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A friend sent me a bonsai. The bonsai was packaged and shipped from a nursery in Mississippi. Despite being a small bonsai, it came in a big box. What accounted for the box size? Well... (Note these were not all the Styrofoam peanuts.)

Article with the full story and photographs of the healthy bonsai:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/unpacking-a-mississippi-bonsai-tree/

#recyclingbin #trashbin #Styrofoam #StyrofoamPeanuts #Packaging #Unboxing #Bonsai #BonsaiTree #Leaf #newleafjournal #thenewleafjournal
A blue recycling bin and gray trash bin filled to the brim with Styrofoam peanuts. The gray bin has a single leaf on top of the peanuts which came from the bonsai tree the peanuts were protecting.
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See my associated article: https://thenewleafjournal.com/trash-pick-up-vehicle-on-brooklyn-bridge/

I took this photo on New York City's Brooklyn Bridge with my BlackBerry Classic phone camera on August 12, 2019. This photo is next to the first Manhattan pedestrian exit and close to the second. Back in 2019, the small pedestrian walkway was split between walkers and bikers (the bikes were banished to a separate path in 2021). The Bridge was difficult to navigate without NYC DOT trucks doing trash pickup in broad daylight. My photo does not capture how much it was struggling, but note that the only way around it was for walkers to go into the bike path (left side was for walkers).

#nyc #brooklynbridge #manhattan #truck #trash #pedestrians #walkway #shotonblackberry #blackberryclassic #newleafjournal #thenewleafjournal
A green New York City Department of Transportation trash pickup with trash backs in its bed drives down the walking side of the Brooklyn Bridge's pedestrian walkway in 2019. It is next to the stairs descending from the Bridge for the first Manhattan exit. There are people in the bike lane going around the truck to the right.
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N.A. Ferrell

I continued my New Years tradition of recapping the year that was at The New Leaf Journal (with the help of our site's fictional dialogue duo). In this post, I reviewed the 51 most-visited articles of the year (statistics courtesy of our local, open source, privacy-friendly hit counter, Koko Analytics... which also makes an appearance in the top 51), from an article about the fediverse at 51 to our Hacker News page 1-fueled #1. In addition to links to all 51 of our most-visited articles and monthly stats, you will find links to some of our 900+ un-ranked posts in the comments.

thenewleafjournal.com/justin-a

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N.A. Ferrell
New York City's Brooklyn Bridge Park occasionally has public art exhibitions. This piece, "Gulf Stream," has been out since May 2022 (apparently until November). I did a bit of research and filled in the gaps about the boat in an article:

https://thenewleafjournal.com/gulf-stream-boat-sculpture-at-brooklyn-bridge-park/

#nyc #brooklyn #brooklynbridgepark #art #publicart #boat #wood #rocks #newleafjournal #thenewleafjournal #teracube #opencameraapp
A photo of a boat on the rocks at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The inside of the boat has skeletal ribs, but it is all made from wood. It is an art piece called "The Gulf Stream."
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I am the editor of an online writing magazine called The New Leaf Journal. We post articles on a variety of topics that interest us. To learn more about our project and find a sample of the 300+ articles that we have posted since launching in April 2020, please see our "About" page below.

thenewleafjournal.com/about/

The New Leaf JournalAbout the Perennially Virid NLJThe About page for The New Leaf Journal, a perennially virid growing online writing magazine dedicated to publishing meaningful content.
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