Queens #MusicMovesMe #AtoZChallenge

Today, you get two memes for the price of one.

First, Music Moves Me.

Who are the Music Moves Me bloggers?

We are a group of music loving bloggers who blog about music each Sunday or Monday (or even later in the week). If you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! (Music Posts Only-meaning at least one music video, please! Otherwise, your post link may be labeled "No Music" or even removed.)   We have occasional theme weeks, but you are welcome to ignore the theme and use music of your choice.  

Music Moves Me is brought to you by Cathy of Curious as a Cathy, Stacy of Stacy's Random Thoughts, Marie, and myself.  Why not join us?  Our theme for this week is You Pick and since this is Q day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, I'm picking a couple of groups whose name began with Q.  

First up:  Quicksilver Messenger Service. 

Here is their 1970 hit Fresh Air. 

Next, Queen, and, from 1975, Bohemian Rhapsody.  This song is considered one of the top songs in rock history.

From 1981 their collaboration with David Bowie - Under Pressure. 

And now that you've enjoyed some music, I bring you, for Q day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, some beauty I've found in the New York City borough of Queens.  I am a native of Queens although I only lived there for the first five months of my life.

If you think I'm going to post pictures of skyscrapers, well, I'm not, because Queens is not a borough of skyscrapers.  Although, in the neighborhood of Long Island City, there are several. No, instead, I will bring you these sights:

Alley Pond Recreation Area, Bayside, Queens.

There are several remnants of the 1964 World's Fair visible in Corona Park, another Queens neighborhood.(I have to explain here that if you address a letter to someone in Queens, you usually use a neighborhood name - not "Queens, NY" but Astoria, Flushing, Jamaica, Long Island City, Little Neck, and so forth.) 

Above are two of them visible from the highway.  I think the first picture is part of the New York State pavilion and I know the second was the Unisphere. I went to that fair several times as a preteen, once with my grade school class and the other times with my parents. These pictures were taken in 2018.

Queens Botanical Garden.  Welcome to the rose garden. The morning I was there, a lot of Asian families were out admiring the roses. 

More roses, Queens botanical gardens.

 Greenery.

Finally, the yellow structures, I'm guessing, are where the Queen bees live.
And that is a wrap!

Join me tomorrow for R day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  And, I hope you'll join me again next week for more music at Music Moves Me.

 Q day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  My theme:  Beauty of our Land