2026 – What Comes Down Must Go Up…………WAY Up! (Part 12 – February 2026)
You may recall that the previous month’s post expressed pessimism about having much content this month………….and for the first 20 days, it wasn’t looking good.
There were only 6 days during that stretch where I had anything observable to shoot and write about.
But then things were hoppin’ in 6 of the final 8 days of the month, so here we go:
FEBRUARY 2
Guys are hanging out of windows to do their work in these two combined shots (click to enlarge):
FEBRUARY 4+5
This piece of equipment was left in this position for a couple of days, so I took a picture at 4:55pm on the 4th. Eighty minutes later, things looked quite different when I took the second pic. The next morning, I took the third picture at 10:30am, when strange window reflections showed up
Basically, a semi-boring shot got more interesting as time rolled along.
This group of shots has to do with moving and adjusting pump jacks, which are the vertical components of scaffolding:
February 6
Time for a quick walk-around on Passaic and Main streets (click to enlarge the first three images):
February 7:
Windy day (ignore the camera sounds):
And then 11 days of nothing…………………
February 19
Remember “furring strips”? All these wooden pieces will eventually be covered up. I’m betting that what’s going up now will be more photographically interesting than how it winds up.
In the third shot in the first group, a resupply wagon arrives.
In the third group of shots, the crane operator “lands” the apparatus so he can get out and walk over to open the gate for another worker and then they both climb aboard in the next shot to head upward:
In the next few shots, they get their wood together. After the second group, count the number of strips below them. Each succeeding shot should each show one more strip being added::
The two shots in the second multiple-image group were taken 2 1/2 hours apart:
Quite a difference!
FEBRUARY 20
This shot was taken at 8:49pm on Friday night. They’ve found a new use for our old friend Typar, since snow was predicted over the weekend:
FEBRUARY 21
While waiting for snow, I took one shot on Saturday that incorporated all of our recent favorite BOMs (Buzzwords Of the Month) – “pump jacks”, “furring strips”, and – of course – “TYPAR”!
FEBRUARY 22
Well, it DID start snowing on Sunday, but the big wallop came on Monday.
So………..
FEBRUARY 23
Here’s Monday morning. You can see the times on the two images:
It was pretty much over by 1pm.
This is basically Saturday’s picture, plus the snow:
You can see the times on the snow and that the Typar usage was probably a good idea:
More snow added to the unplowed roof:
FEBRUARY 24
This looks like the Monday shot (that looked like Saturday’s shot), but with some added window reflections below the crane:
Here’s an interesting little flick with flickering reflections:
I’ve never seen this before and I have no idea what’s causing it (besides the sun).
FEBRUARY 25
Speaking of never seeing something before, this has to be the bonus of the month. I’m lucky I saw this as I was walking though my living room:
It was beautiful! Normally, I would say that I wish somebody invited me to go up on the roof to shoot this, but this was a situation where I was probably better off shooting from a distance, while being nice and warm in my living room.
I also took two videos: an mp4 and a QuickTime. They combined easily:
Lastly, the TYPAR did its job and was removed:
FEBRUARY 26
We finish off February with two days of furring strip work. The 26th ends with a YouTube video:
FEBRUARY 27
5Pix and 1 tiny video (the sound of the nail gun):
You can see from the above video and the 3 images above that that I was on-site. Somebody left the gate to the common driveway between this project and next-door neighbor 389 Main St OPEN!
The last still photo (right above the video) shows a full panoramic image of all of the furring strip work. I would have preferred to take the shot somewhere to the left to be more centered, but the blazing sun – you can see where it is behind the upper part of the center part of the building – would have blinded both me and my camera.
February 28
NADA (Saturday)
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