Thanks for the kind words, TOTH (and Al).
Yeah, I DO like candid "odd pairings" (fortunate juxtapositioning).
Two of the examples you brought up referred to crosses. Here's what happened in those shots:
For many years, the First Presbyterian Church at Passaic and Union has had a Korean congregation that comes in early Sunday afternoons after the original congregation. They kept a lot of things stored in the church.
They found a new home in Englewood and moved out on Christmas Eve. When I saw the guy carrying the cross to the truck, I knew that was the definitive shot to get.
Holy Trinity Church has their annual carnival in the church parking lot. That line in Freddy Cannon's "Palisade Park" about "...when you stop at the top of the ferris wheel" was probably running through my head and - from a certain angle - that stop at the top appears to be near the cross atop the church's dome/steeple.
Perhaps the woman in the picture had "Nearer My God To Thee" running through her head at that moment.
I know it's fun for the viewer to make up stories about what's happening in the pictures, but if anyone wants to know what's really going on in any picture, I'm happy to spill it.