Guzzle, Guzzle, Oil and Trouble

Oil prices fell Wednesday, the AP reported, after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and a government report said U.S. fuel supplies unexpectedly fell last week.

Tags: Montclair | photography | gas prices

Scaregoose on Duty

The most famous scarecrow of all time was Ray Bolger in The Wizard of Oz, but in these parts we have a bigger problem, geese, and are still trying to find effective ways of scaring them.

Tags: Clifton | photography | Bolger, Ray | geese | King Solomon Cemetery

When Rainy Days and Mondays Coincide

Windshield wipers were challenged throughout the day Monday, as were umbrellas, galoshes and all the rest of the stay-dry paraphrenalia.

From behind the wheel of my car, traffic looked like this...

Tags: photography | Bloomfield Avenue | Verona | traffic | galoshes

Waiting For a Hero

Waiting for a takeout order is a good time to zone out, read a paper, or, if you're like me, start looking at one's surroundings closely and hopefully. I use the word in the old-fashioned sense. I will never give in on hopefully.

At about 100 paces from our office door, Anthony's Pizza and Pasta is not only the closest food shop to our office, but a good one, making fresh tasty subs. The looking around is also quite good.

Tags: Anthony's Pizza and Pasta | photography | Morristown | Coca-Cola | hoagies | Hero sandwiches | Morristown Green

The Overbrook Forsythia

Forsythia are in bloom. A stubborn plant, it heralds spring in its brassy garish way, flourishing where people want it, where they never wanted it, where no one remembers it even exists.

Pitted against neglect and decay, as here, it mocks our indifference to what we have left behind.

Tags: photography | Verona | Cedar Grove | forsythia | Essex County Hospital Center

Signs of Spring

Raise your hand if you're against sprawl. Unruly, unchecked, unregulated growth. It's everywhere, it's stubborn, and it's in our face.

But at this time of year we are reminded of another type of sprawl, just as stubborn and in our face.

Bless its heart.

Tags: photography | Morristown | Morristown | spring | blossoms | Dumont Place | parking meters

Happy Belated Earth Day!

The poet William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Well, how about in a thingamajig on top of a rusty metal fence in Edgemont Park in Montclair?

Tags: photography | Montclair | sand | Edgemont Park | Blake, William | Earth Day