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Entries for May 2009




What is it About Backhoes?

May 19, 2009 01:33 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Maybe it's a vestige of boyhood, but I'm a sucker for a backhoe, with its digging tools fore and aft and its cockpit full of levers. And especially so when juxtaposed against something interesting, as here...

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Tags: Morristown | photography



The Paper Serpent

May 18, 2009 02:12 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

I don't know what came in the box that appeared in the NJM offices at Morristown the other day, but it could scarcely have been as interesting as the packing material that surrounded it.

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I'm So Vein 3

May 15, 2009 02:14 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

I don't know about you, but I feel better knowing the person drawing my blood is wearing a latex-free, powder-free, ambidextrous, Med Pride vinyl examination glove and has a little play sunflower attached to her station.

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Tags: Montclair | photography | Mountainside Hospital



I'm So Vein 2

May 14, 2009 01:29 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

One thing I like about blood tests--probably the only thing--is the colorful paraphernalia, especially the specimen vials with their color-coded caps and mysterious preservative gel at the round end...

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Tags: Montclair | photography | Mountainside Hospital



I'm So Vein 1

May 12, 2009 12:30 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Awaiting the tourniquet and needle for a blood test, I did what anyone with a camera would do--look for pictures.

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Tags: Montclair | photography | Mountainside Hospital



Dog(wood) Days

May 11, 2009 12:15 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Catch 'em while you can. The dogwood blossoms will be on the ground before you can bark up the wrong tree.

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Tags: Montclair | photography



Green Day

May 08, 2009 01:16 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

A vacant storefront gets a makeover, here in the early stages of the process...

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Tags: Morristown | photography