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Friday May 16, 2008
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It's an even more amazing state we live in, when you stop to look. Photographs by New Jersey Monthly Senior Editor Eric Levin.

Plain Sight: A Jersey Photo Blog

Can't Explain

May 15, 2008 09:02 PM ET | Levin, Eric | Permanent Link

Why do I have this thing about trucks? Not all trucks, just ones that for some reason arrest my attention. Like this one down the Shore, that I followed for a block or two until I could get close enough to take a picture.

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Sure Beats Winter

May 14, 2008 08:11 PM ET | Levin, Eric | Permanent Link

Yes, May has been cool and rainy, with just a few gorgeous days, but we must keep things in perspective.

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Tags: Livingston

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Tusk, Tusk

May 13, 2008 09:28 PM ET | Levin, Eric | Permanent Link

In a Morristown parking lot, an SUV sprouts fangs and sings, "I Am The Walrus."

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In a Pig's Eye

May 12, 2008 06:56 PM ET | Levin, Eric | Permanent Link

It's a little unnerving to be stared at by the creature that will provide your dinner...

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Tags: Montclair

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Car Wash Shocker

May 11, 2008 06:59 PM ET | Levin, Eric | Permanent Link

Maybe the water was too hot.

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Tags: Belleville

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Waiting For Pupusa

May 09, 2008 07:31 PM ET | Levin, Eric | Permanent Link

A Salvadoran restaurant just opened a block from our office. I went there for takeout at lunchtime Wednesday.

Ordered a guanabana shake and a pupusa, which is a Salvadoran tortilla, thicker than a pancake and filled with cheese, which melts as the tortilla is griddled. What to do while waiting?

Look at what's hidden in plain sight, of course.

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Tags: Morristown

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Wild on the Interstate

May 08, 2008 06:56 PM ET | Levin, Eric | Permanent Link

The traffic and the drivers are one thing, but wilder yet is what lies just over the shoulder of our Jersey Interstate Highways.

One of my favorite places to contemplate nature is at the intersection of I-80 and I-280 in (approximately) Pine Brook, where traffic often slows to a crawl, making it easy to roll down a window and pull out the camera.

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Tags: traffic | East Hanover | photography | Whippany

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