The Garden Bridge

How cute is this tiny bridge in a small front yard garden!  I dropped my car off this morning and retraced the route that I took when dropping off Kathy's car.  This time it was a sunny day, instead of overcast, so I saw things I hadn't seen before.  I don't think I have ever seen a bridge in a garden.  I have seen small statues, and I bought a stone angel for our garden.  For some reason I found this lovely and worth a photograph.

 

The Antique Shop

 

OK so this is pretty bizarre.  It is a continuation of my walk home from dropping the car off.  This was the location of an antique shop that has been here since I can remember.  Then suddenly they were having an out of business sale, then it was closed.  I used to ride by it on my bike but the store is on a hill so I went by it at high speed and never took much notice of what was left inside.  But when I walked by the store on the way home I was stunned to see this mounted deer head in the chair!  I guess no one wanted to buy this at the final sale.

Beautiful Ironwork

This photograph goes back a couple of weeks.  I mentioned the day I dropped Kathy's car off at the mechanic, and then walked the two miles home.  Good exercise.  Also good for photographs!  I took a bunch.  This is one of the first, a beautiful piece of ironwork in front of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Glen Head.  I have driven by this church a billion times, but you need to walk to really see things.  I just love the artistry and the beauty of this piece of ironwork on a pole by the front steps of the church.  It is just lovely.

 

The Oil Boom

I have been fascinated with this yellow rubber oil boom.  It has air in it so it floats on top of the water.  It sits unused most of the time, but when an oil barge comes in to unload, they surround the barge with this oil boom in case of an oil spill.  The oil, being lighter than water, would float on the top of the water and be contained by the boom.   This is located down by where the old power plant used to be.  Usually the boom is in a straight line and I am always trying to make an interesting picture of it.  So far, no luck.   But yesterday it was bunched up and then from the left, these four Mallard ducks swam toward it in a line!  Bingo!  Here was my photograph, finally.  It is about something to do with nature versus man made technology, if you came here for sone philosophy!   :-)

 

Numbers

 

Look at this!  I wish I had seen this odometer 5 miles ago.  It was a once in lifetime chance to see an incredible number for the mileage on my 2013 Chevrolet Impala. I think the last 5 miles were put on driving home from my astronomy meeting and I just didn't happen to notice.  I have to give thanks to my good friend Ken, who I address as "Primo" when he comments on the blog. that's because he was born before me.  So I am "Secondo!"  Years ago he told me about his fascination with numbers and it is fun to pay attention to things having repeating numbers, or a sequence of numbers.  Like a receipt that is for $123.45 for instance. He found pleasure in paying attention to these things, and because of him I do that as well.  So this is a good one, but all ones would have been better!

Light on the Water

I become more aware of the effect of light on the water when I am walking along the shore of Hempstead Harbor. When there is very little wind and the water is calm you can see the effect that the smooth water has on the sunlight.  Sometimes I just stop and lean on the railing and watch as the bright reflections move around on the surface.  I first photographed just the reflections today, but realized that by themselves it was not enough so I walked a little bit further and added the rock to the photograph. It is difficult for me to try and explain the beautiful liquid silver that I see when I am watching the water on days like this.

 

A Warm Glow

We still have our electric Christmas candles in each window.  In these cold gray nights, I love the warm glow in each window that they give.  I leave them on all night, they are LED bulbs and use so little power.  When going up to bed the other night, I turned around after turning off the lamps in the room and saw this scene.  I loved seeing the room illuminated with this warn glow.  The room was very dimly lit by the candles so I had to use a "film speed" of 12,800 to get this image.  Beautiful, isn't it?