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Down by the river
« on: April 03, 2011, 08:58:24 PM »
I went out this morning to take ONE picture on Main St and got distracted enough on the way that I wound up with 147 shots taken in two towns.

As I headed south on Main, I passed the YMCA and looked left to the river. The sun was shimmering on it. I always see that from home, but never from up close, so I headed down Passaic St.

I walked behind White Manna and took the first photo. The next river access was two doors down, where the palleted mess in the second photo caught my eye.

Continuing south, I encountered a black rhino in front of Ricca Auto Body (third photo). How long has this thing been there? I hadn't noticed it before.

When I got to the Midtown Bridge Approach, I saw that the Circle Brake property is now fenced-in. I was gonna head back up to Main, but decided to take some shots of Bowler City and the Ice House for some reason. It turned out to be a good move...........all of the rest of the photos here were taken on that detour.

The fourth photo shows one of my favorite birds - a mockingbird - screaming for his life because he just landed on a sticker bush (ouch!) right at the entrance to Bowler City (Actually, he was warbling his entire repertoire and you can hear some of it below..............I don't know what happened to the focusing).

I decided to walk across the Midtown Bridge and took a sharp right into the park in Bogota (Olsen Park?). I walked the short paved path and beyond so I could get a clear shot (fifth photo) of the old County Jail, the Courthouse dome, the Church on the Green steeple, the carcass of the Court St Bridge, the USS LIng, and the Susquehanna tracks across the river.

I followed a dirt path that brought me to the tracks and found four tracks crossing the river at that point instead of two (sixth photo).  Are they old trolley tracks or old RR tracks with newer ones built right next to them?

In any event, the old ones begin and end at the river banks. I wonder why they're still there.

Now backtracking, I encountered a couple of geese swimming toward me. One is shown in the seventh picture. The other got out of the water and started to take a couple of steps toward me. I doubt it was because my camera looked like a slice of bread.

After crossing the bridge back into Hackensack, I noticed that traffic and a runner appeared to be heading toward the Johnson Library (eighth photo).

The ninth photo is a closeup of a window in the Circle Brake building - decrepit, but cool-looking.

By this time, the light had shifted and I never got my Main St shot.



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Re: Down by the river
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2011, 10:37:49 PM »
I love the window picture.  It looks like it might be in the Carribean.  I wonder what's living in there.

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Re: Down by the river
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2011, 11:03:59 PM »

I'm interested in that train track photo.  You might be right, could that older 'bridge' be a surviving vestige of the former trolley tracks ?

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Re: Down by the river
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2011, 11:13:46 PM »
I love the window picture. I wonder what's living in there.

I'm told that the black rhino lives there because it's close to his job.

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Re: Down by the river
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2011, 05:01:17 PM »
Great photos that make you think about the subject...my favorite kind. The old tracks are fascinating in that they look like structural I-beams not standard railroad tracks. They also do not seem to be spaced the same as the tracks that are obviously still in use. That would be an interesting subject to research since whatever used those tracks was not a conventional railroad train.

The black rhino seems to have a slow leak indicated by the wrinkles in his legs. 

The remains of someone's once treasured car has been loaded on a pallet and given an ID number so perhaps it's life is not over yet.

The talented Mockingbird is my favorite winged entertainer. They are very territorial and will raise a fuss and come to blows over a disputed area. Their ability to mimic other birds and even a cat or a squeaky gate is amazing.