It's an even more amazing state we live in, when you stop to look. Photographs by New Jersey Monthly Senior Editor Eric Levin.
Entries for August 2008
Come Closer...And Closer...And Closer.
I was walking to my car in a parking lot on Church Street in Montclair. I have parked in this lot hundreds of times, but each time I look at the same white brick wall to see how the light is hitting it and whether something, in some way, is new.
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Wearing His Heart On His Wrist
The sun was low in the sky when I pulled into Hot Dog Johnny's, the roadfood landmark on Route 46 in Buttzville, a few miles east of the Delaware River in Warren County.
The sun cast an orange glow over the green and orange awning, the several Harleys in the parking lot and the forearm of the young man in the passenger seat of the car next to mine.
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Cute! / Borrrring!
It depends on which side of the point-and-shoot you're on.
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Alone and Together
The space between tables, barely wide enough for a waitress carrying brimming mugs to squeeze through, can be as irreduceable as the boundary between time zones.
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Girl Talk
On a bench on the promenade at Pier Village in Long Branch, a mother and daughter had a heart-to-heart while the menfolk did what menfolk do, at least if you ask the women.
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The Palms of Pier Village
As seasonal as the weekenders who bask beneath them, palm trees on the Jersey Shore have to be replanted each summer, just ahead of the snowbirds who follow them north.
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Say "Cheese Sandwich!"
My stroll up the Long Branch boardwalk next brought me to a bench where a young woman in a funny hat was taking pictures of her husband and twin boys as they munched on floppy white bread sandwiches. Clouds had covered the sun, but their radiance was undimmed.
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