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What Rip Saw
Besides the “first” last name van, Rip van Winkle and I share some history of profound enough unhappiness to consider disappearance; I weathered the “storm” in plain sight whereas he went into these...
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Savannah Watershed 2
I’ll never claim to know all the sixth boro stories although I’ve chosen as a goal to hear more of them. Savannah has a great waterfront story. See if you can figure it out from this set of fotos; I...
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Happy V Day
If ever I knew this poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the spouse of Mary Shelley, who authored Frankenstein… then I’d forgotten it til a stranger–a compelling stranger– recited though not as an invitation...
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Weather 3
Sunday March 14, Red Hook (Brooklyn) and looking to the southwest. The bulker beyond Houma is Darya Shanthi, Weeks crane 529 offloading salt. Sky darkens quickly over Staten Island. The dark plume...
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Thousand Thousand Slimy
How I long to return to the graveyard: not the words of a misanthrope or exhausted vampire at all. See frogma’s gallery here. She has both graveyard and lifeyard pics of ships, as well as one of...
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Leaving Bayonne
D … as in departure … moment 00:00 for me, the observer with a camera over on the other side of the Kill, fascinated. This foto is an arbitrary starting point for this series. I love it about...
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Luminaries
Some previous posts with lighthouses can be seen here, here and here, but more hide in the archives of this blog. Question: any guesses what/where this structure is? Answer follows. Dry Tortugas...
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Mark Thrice
Many thanks to Capt. Justin Zizes for this series of shots, morning shots of a workaholic tug and a fairly recent addition to the ”flying dutchman” vessels aka cruise ships. Less than two years old,...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Know the city? Know this city? The clue lies in WTGB number, 107 v. 105. And in the nearer, smaller vessel below. It’s New York and Detroit, two capitals of different enterprises. Click here for...
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Names 31
Thanks to Gerard Thornton for use of these photos. Steppenwolf, or at least strutting gull. Beneath the wheel, or at least the wheels of the cranes. The Glass Bead Game, or at least the metal box...
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