{"id":17720,"date":"2017-04-30T22:06:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T02:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=17720"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:45:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:45:27","slug":"2022-bobs-observations-best-photos-july-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=17720","title":{"rendered":"2022 – BOB’S OBS-ervations (Best Photos July-December)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As usual, here\u2019s my bi-annual slog through 90 million pictures to pick my favorites from the second half of 2022 in sequential fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n

It really DOES take weeks to put this together, so I hope you like it. I\u2019m pretty sure I will\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026eventually.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way……….”Bob’s Obs” was something similar I used to do every year for my family on VHS tape back in the ’90s and ’00s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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JULY<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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7-1 and 7-9 (above) – I found a way to save some picture space.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-1 – Fireworks in Ridgefield, NJ (taken from my living room – click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-2 – Conscientious neighbor:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-2 – Neighborhood Cranes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-2 – This was strange. I still don\u2019t know for sure what was going on here. I saw this woman carrying a crazy balloon – sculpture<\/em>? – in the parking lot to her car. I could see that a couple of small black balloons said \u201cTikTok\u201d on them, so that\u2019s a clue\u2026\u2026\u2026I guess. Then I saw a girl (her daughter?) wearing a \u201cThe Birthday Girl\u201d shirt and posing with the balloon contraption. Then Mom(?) jammed it all into the back seat and took a picture (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not up on my TikTok culture, but was this some sort of TikTok birthday challenge?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-2 (and 7-16, 7-23) – Consistent with his bracelet and headgear:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-3 – I shot these fireworks from my back room through glass (click to enlarge). As I recall, these are from Saddle Brook (a couple miles west of me):<\/span><\/p>\n

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I especially like the third one because they backlit a triple cross that\u2019s atop a Hackensack church that\u2019s just under a mile away from me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-3 – This shows two shots of a crescent moon that\u2019s setting behind a Hackensack high-rise:\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-4 – This shows that triple cross I just mentioned. I shot this through a dirty window in my kitchen (I can\u2019t get outside to clean it) with the tripod in the sink:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-4 – What\u2019s more Fourth-of-July-ish than a string of red, white, and blue balloons from a car dealership?<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-4 – FIREWORKS, that\u2019s what!
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These are the first July 4 Hackensack fireworks with the new building in the way, but it\u2019s not so bad\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026they look like they\u2019ve been shot off from that building\u2019s roof. OK, building\u2026\u2026..you can stay.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Right after the Hackensack fireworks ended, New York City\u2019s Macy\u2019s fireworks began on the East River, which – for all you non-locals – is on the other<\/em> side of Manhattan from me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I shot this from the same spot in my living room that I shot the Hackensack fireworks from:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A photo of Manhattan skyscrapers backlit by East River fireworks is NOT a shot you see very often – especially from Hackensack, which is at least 7 or 8 miles away from the Macy\u2019s show (he says modestly).<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-9 – Colorful man with smiley-face shorts (no thanks):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-9 – Looking 7 floors straight down from my living room, you can see what\u2019s overhead (I\u2019m shooting from the window on the left):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-9 – This was the panoramic view of the Hackensack River and both campuses of Fairleigh Dickinson University (Teaneck on the left, Hackensack on the right) as I dined at a table on the pedestrian bridge between the two (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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BTW – the Whopper was excellent! (and, yes, that\u2019s most of the moon to the right of the upper middle)<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-13 – There was some sort of summer church program next door for a bunch of kids. Here you see some boys jumping rope (dunno what the girls were doing\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026building houses?):<\/span><\/p>\n

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And here they all are enjoying the ice cream truck behind the church:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-14 – Picking up (or depositing) a can (I\u2019ll assume the former):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-16 – Uh-oh\u2026\u2026\u2026..look out, little girl!<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-23 – Fish crow closeup:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-26 – Two sunset shots:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – I woke up just after 5am and could NOT get back to sleep, so I took the opportunity to take some early photos that I usually never get the chance to take, starting with these two shots that show a side of the skyscrapers lit as I\u2019ve never seen them before:<\/span><\/p>\n

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By the way – that local building with the lights that look like fireflies is a new, under-construction building in Hackensack with the unusual designation of \u201cIvy and Green\u201d, as you can see on the far right of the top pic.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no idea what\u2019s up with those lights\u2026\u2026\u2026..I just hope they don\u2019t interfere with my night photography (he says selfishly).<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – An early AM, new-to-me view of the World Trade Center:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – Looking in the opposite direction, I see the early sun bouncing off two high-rise buildings:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – I decided to go out for an early AM photowalk. The first thing I saw were some of my good-looking, nosy neighbors two blocks away. Click to enlarge anything in this post that says PANO……….like this (PANO). You can click this one twice (hit back button to return):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – An early-AM and unusually empty Main St (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – Oh, look – it\u2019s Ivy and Green again! To orient you locals who may not be familiar with Hackensack\u2019s ever-changing look, if you cross the Hackensack River on the Midtown Bridge via Fort Lee Rd in Bogota, this is what you\u2019d have seen last summer (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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But where are the firefly lights?<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – Well, here are some of them. Fortunately, they\u2019re no longer there (do fireflies fly south for the winter?) (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – Across the street, geese have arrived in Foschini Park for breakfast (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – As I walk around the Ice House (skating rink), I find someone doing what I normally would be doing at that hour (but not in my car):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – Time to take a walk across the river on the Midtown bridge. As I look south towards the Court St Bridge, I see something I\u2019ve never seen before: a truck on the Susquehanna railroad tracks across the river. It makes a nice picture with the bridge and construction behind it:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – I decide to go for a wider shot that includes the dome of the Bergen County Courthouse and the steeple of the First Reformed Church (Church on the Green) – a church that was familiar to George Washington (but that\u2019s another story):<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – I\u2019ll bet that you didn\u2019t notice a WWII submarine in the previous pic. Well, take another look here:<\/span><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s the USS Ling and as of this past January 1, it\u2019s been moored there for 50 years (but not for long).<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – From Olsen Park on the other side of the river in Bogota, I took this unusual sky shot that also includes the side of the Ice House, where I found Sleeping Handsome:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – Now back in Foschini Park at its northernmost point – the Kipps Bend section of the Hackensack River – I came across these two photogenic ducks on a rock:<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – The river\u2019s fairly calm, so I was able to get a couple of shots of them AND their reflections (click to enlarge):
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7-27 – I zoomed in on that last shot to get the duck making out with its reflection. (What the duck?!)<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-27 – On my way out of the park, I got this shot of a furry bee amidst some colorful flowers:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Busy day! And it\u2019s only 8am! But that was it – photographically – for July 27.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7-31 – I came home that day to find festive-looking balloons in the garbage and by the time I got up to my apartment, someone had pushed them into the dumpster:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Interesting month\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

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AUGUST<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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8-3 – Remember the ice cream truck from July? Here\u2019s a shot of the ice cream man deciding which cold confection HE wants:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-5 – One lucky girl gets to pay for everyone else\u2019s frozen treats:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-5 – I just thought that an upside-down \u201cStones Throw\u201d sticker – whatever that\u2019s about – was an unusual thing to see on a post in a supermarket parking lot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-6 – Apparently, it was \u201cDark Pants, Red Shirt, Weird Black Head Covering\u201d Day in the parking lot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-6 and 8-9 – Two dogs become three:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-9 – You can see Manhattan in the background. The old smokestack of the Federal Paper Board Co is in Bogota, NJ, and the crane is doing something in Hackensack:<\/span><\/p>\n

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OK – 3 locations in 2 states in 1 picture\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026big deal. But I had to stay with it and see if I could make it into something else (must have been really<\/em> bored that day).<\/span><\/p>\n

I noticed that whatever the crane was carrying seemed to be destined for the top of the smokestack and appeared to have landed there:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Is that more interesting than the first picture? (Probably not).<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-9 – On to more illusions\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..the moving part of the back gate of the truck shows much less surface area than the stationary part, yet its shadow shows much more:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-9 – Both of these photos were taken at sunset, but the top photo faces EAST and the bottom one faces WEST:<\/span><\/p>\n

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If that isn\u2019t strange enough, this section of the bottom photo appears to have a tornado inside the cloud:<\/span><\/p>\n

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To top it all off, this steeple is just south of me. Look at its west-facing window:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Geez\u2026\u2026..it\u2019s even affecting my watermark!<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-12 – Nice sunset illumination of clouds and a reflection off a building that I think is in Jersey City:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-13 – Asian lady beetle drops by for a visit:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-13 – Non-Asian lady non-beetle former neighbor\u2019s interesting – albeit grainy<\/em> – sequence (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-16 – Well, I guess that clears things up:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-16 – Brand-new wheel-less car:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I saw this in a small parking lot a couple of feet from the road near a busy section of Hackensack. I have no idea what happened or why or how:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-18 – Peeping-Tom-in-training?<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-18 – \u201cLemme out!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-18 – This is the shadow of that just-south-of-me steeple (First Presbyterian Church) on the State St side of the 389 Main building at sunset:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-20 – Awwwwww\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-20 – Sunset:<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-23 – This is the story of a guard bug that I\u2019ve had for 32 years. It begins at Madison Square Garden in 1990 and ends with a buzzed George Washington in 1964. (huh?)<\/span><\/p>\n

Here we see a picture I took of Mark Slaughter (of the band Slaughter<\/em>, which opened for KISS that night) holding the bug. You can read what it says:<\/span><\/p>\n

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And here it is guarding stuff:<\/span><\/p>\n

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What kind of stuff? How about a real quarter (25-cent coin) that\u2019s been cut to simulate GW smoking weed in his pipe?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t believe it\u2019s real? Check out this closeup of both sides of the coin – especially the back (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-23 – This photo – which shows Hudson Yards (upper left) in Manhattan, the two towers of the PSE&G plant just below Hudson Yards (but actually in Ridgefield, NJ, next to the NJ Turnpike), and all kinds of colorful construction going on in Hackensack – was originally meant to be a closeup of the bright blue truck that caught my eye (and is sitting below PSE&G):<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWell, maybe I\u2019ll include this\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026and maybe I should add that\u2026..and maybe\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201d. I barely notice the truck in the final result.<\/span><\/p>\n

The evolution of a photo\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a compilation of 3 different commuter trains on the same tracks that are close to structures and bisecting 3 different parts of Hackensack (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a fashion statement I could have done just fine not ever seeing. Is this guy serious? Is any female finding this attractive?<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a look (and color!) that I would only expect from a former president.<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-27 – Did this young lady steal these balloons from a British naval ship?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Too obscure a reference? Go look up the initials.<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-27 – Ooo, I see a texting-while-pedaling ticket in this guy\u2019s future:<\/span><\/p>\n

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He doesn\u2019t look too<\/em> distracted from his surroundings, does he?<\/span><\/p>\n

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8-30 – No comment\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026happy August:<\/span><\/p>\n

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SEPTEMBER<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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9-3 – Happy Labor Day from your Nissan dealer!<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-3 – From the look on this guy\u2019s face, he may have just<\/em> received that burned-in Omega branding:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-3 – Not sure why, but I liked this shot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-3 – Cross\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.where? (PANO)<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-6 – \u201cTexting-while-boarding\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.ticketable offense?<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-10 – The funeral procession for the world\u2019s tallest man? (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-11 – Hey……..if red, white and blue \u201cSALE\u201d balloons work for car dealerships, they\u2019ve GOT to work for street light dealers too, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-13 – I\u2019ve shown parts of this ice cream place in Hackensack before, but never a full frontal. So if it\u2019s good enough for Bella Hadid (https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/CranberryBella<\/a><\/span>), it\u2019s good enough for you (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-15 – OK – this is a weird one. Let\u2019s start with the image on the left. What you see is the side view of the front of a small strip mall about 4-5 blocks west of me. I took that picture from my kitchen window. Keep the location of the red X in mind:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now go to the right picture. I\u2019m standing where that X is in the left picture, but I\u2019m now facing east – past the construction, past a house and past the front of a brick apartment building and all the way to my apartment on the roof of that building, 4-5 blocks away (my kitchen window is circled in red).<\/span><\/p>\n

Got it? Me neither.<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-17 – Smoke and chug (and eyeball my watermark):<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-17 – Another candidate for a texting-while-pedaling ticket:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-22 – The setting sun reflects off the towers in Fort Lee and the high-rises in Cliffside Park:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-23 – A sign I never thought I\u2019d see in a supermarket parking lot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fortunately, New Jersey\u2019s in the process of reversing the paper bag ban.<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-24 – I\u2019ll take chair #259:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-24 – An American goldfinch!<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-24 – I happened to be walking past a cemetery\u2019s locked funeral chapel and saw something bright and colorful inside. I placed my camera against the glass door to eliminate all outside glare and got this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-24 – I don\u2019t recall which town set these fireworks off (or why), but they went off seemingly mid-way between me and the World Trade Center, which is visible in every pic (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who expects great and colorful pyrotechnic displays like this in the fall?<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-27 – A private jet comes in low on its approach to Teterboro Airport, which is about 4 miles south of me:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-27 – This interesting-looking building is on Railroad Ave in Hackensack (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-27 and 11-9 – I wanted a clear picture of this without the SUV that the eagle looks like he’s about to pick up with his talons and when the sun was shining on it. I got it a month-and-a-half later and enhanced the coloring (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-27 – A cement pumper on a construction site encloses the cupola on the Johnson Public Library:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-27 – Sears – closed and in the clouds:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-28 – Sunset starts to turn red:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-28 – Sunset goes all red south and west of me:<\/span><\/p>\n

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9-29 – The landmark Hackensack YMCA, where Mom took me when I was a kid to learn how to swim – the only class I ever failed (PANO).<\/span><\/p>\n

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This building is about two blocks from where I live and has just been sold. I thought that was the end of it, but I recently found out that this cherished and historical edifice will be torn down and a 14-story residential monstrosity will replace it\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..ugh!<\/span><\/p>\n

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OCTOBER<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10-6 – I don\u2019t know if this is true where you\u2019re located, but the biggest bug problem lately is the spotted lanternfly. If you want to know why, go here to see what neighboring Pennsylvania says about it: https:\/\/www.agriculture.pa.gov\/Plants_Land_Water\/PlantIndustry\/Entomology\/spotted_lanternfly\/SpottedLanternflyAlert\/Pages\/default.aspx<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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NJ wants them all killed:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have no idea why this plant-hopping bug was seven floors up on my living room window screen\/sill:<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-6 – Chasing spotted lanternflies, no doubt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-8 (another photowalk) – I can see this directly from my living room window\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026looks better up close:<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-8 – Tale of Two Flags – I took this PANO shot because the flag on the left was at half-staff with no wind at all, while the flag on the right sits atop a building at full-staff in obvious wind. How does that happen?<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-8 – A block south of the previous shot, I took this full-block-long PANO of a large construction site:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been doing this occasionally since it began and will continue to do so until completion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-8 – I\u2019m now on Main St, where I couldn\u2019t get this snobby girl to talk to me:<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-8 – \u201c99-cent Dreams\u201d? Sounds like everything in the store must be that price\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026until you zoom in on that small sign in the window:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Big deal\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026one thing could be 99 cents and the sky\u2019s the limit on everything else (no – I didn\u2019t bother going in to check).<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-8 – This looks odd\u2026\u2026\u2026..two cell phone competitors right next to each other?<\/span><\/p>\n

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I guess if you don\u2019t like the deal in one place, you don\u2019t have far to go to try to get a better one.<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-8 – I thought a PANO shot of the truck and logo would look cool:<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-8 – But then I noticed something\u2026\u2026\u2026..the store\u2019s clock says that the time is 4:53. I took this in late morning, so I zoomed in on the clock and took a time-and-date-stamped photo:<\/span><\/p>\n

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10-8 – This reminded me of another clock problem two blocks away that I photographed a month or two earlier. It was at the Hackensack Bus Terminal – a place that runs on critical schedules and should show EXACT times always.<\/span><\/p>\n

I walked over there and – sure enough – the west-facing side\u2019s clock was way off. I took a picture and then walked around to the east-facing side and – surprise, surprise – that clock was off too with a wrong time that was different from the west-facing one! Here are those time\/date-stamped images, taken two minutes apart:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Five days later, on a hunch, I walked over to another exact-time-dependent transportation site – the Anderson St Railroad Station and took a picture of their clock at 10:38am:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unbelievable! How is it that the clocks at bus and rail facilities are not corrected immediately? BTW – I DID post these pix on a Hackensack site, but I haven\u2019t yet returned to either place to see if the clocks are fixed. I\u2019ll try to do that before I post this.<\/span><\/p>\n

This just in: I was just out. I took a ride to see what time it was……….x3. NONE of the 3 transportation facilities’ clocks were fixed and two of them showed the exact same time they did three-and-a-half months ago! I asked someone sitting at a desk inside the bus terminal when the clocks would get fixed.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s not my job” was the informative response.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back to the photowalk……………<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure why, but I found this shot interesting:<\/span><\/p>\n

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From a distance, it appears that the bowling alley has a car wash:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I read this PANO as \u201cIt Hertz to eat hamburgers because you might get gas\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

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And the photowalk concludes with images of something everybody wants to see – squirrel teeth:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fun facts:<\/span><\/p>\n