Giving Good Weight

Some will recognize the title of today's post, borrowed from the title of a great early collection of John McPhee's shorter pieces, including one in which he harvests onions and digs one out of the ground, wipes off the dirt and bites into it like an apple. And it tastes good. Anyway, no onions or apples in today's Plain Sight, just a beautiful, old-fashioned set of scales, dusted with a great pizzamaker's flour.

Tags: McPhee, John | Elizabeth | photography | Pizza | Santillo's Brick Oven

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Mr.Pizza's Distinguished Guest

While I was at Santillo's pizza in Elizabeth, who should walk in but my pal Alan Richman, the most decorated food writer in the world...

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Mr. Pizza

Stopped in at Santillo's Brick Oven Pizza in Elizabeth recently for the killer pie Al Santillo calls the Grandpa, which is a big crunchy square pie loaded with the works...

Tags: Elizabeth | photography | Pizza | Santillo's Brick Oven | Santillo, Al

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Porsche/Kiddie Car

Two extremes of four-wheeled transportation on either side of a fence...

Tags: Elizabeth | photography | toy cars | cars

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Basket Case

Behind a grocery store, I found a peach basket, shopping carts, railroad tracks...grids gone wild...

Tags: Morristown | photography

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Remember Spring?

There was a week when the tulip trees shed their lush blossoms, strewing sidewalks with an increasingly slippery pink carpet...

Tags: Montclair | photography | spring

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Waiting For Godoctor

It's interesting how the quality of your waiting changes after you've been sprung from the waiting room and are now in the examining room, though still waiting...

Tags: Montclair | Doctors | photography | doctors offices

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