Monongahela Scuttle
Tuesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
A ‘short walk’ day was upon me, but a humble narrator was feeling a bit lazy. Combatting ennui, I forced myself out of HQ and drove down to Pittsburgh’s South Side Park with its accompanying section of the Three Rivers Heritage trail for a short scuttle. As mentioned yesterday, this section is an easy 15-20 minutes drive from HQ.
That’s the Birmingham Bridge, over the Monongahela River, in the shot above. At the time of this writing, which is a couple of weeks ago as far as when you’re seeing this post, I’m nursing a sore back. The tenderness of the saddle region was earned during a long walk, one which included scuttling over that bridge from a frankly disturbing section of Pittsburgh that’s called ‘Uptown.’
More on that in a couple of weeks.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I had keyed in another LibriVox audiobook for this walk, this time “A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I, written by John Bagnell Bury’ and was struggling to get past the notion of somebody writing a history book about prehistoric times. I mean… it’s prehistoric… so…
It’s a fairly old text, as the author died in 1927, and many of its descriptions of Minoan Greece have been upended in recent years by ongoing archaeological discovery occurring in both the islands of the Peloponnese, and in Egypt. There’s a lot of inference injected into the text emanating from the classical Greek and Roman historians, and philosophers, which has ended up being contradicted by actual evidence of the Minoan civilization that was formerly buried in the soil.
Still, it’s an interesting listen and doesn’t lead to the death of brain cells and compassion like social media does.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Can’t describe how happy I was to visit with a Combined Sewer Outfall along the way. I miss the sewer plant in Brooklyn most of all, for some reason. Had a lot of interesting times there, and I saw things most do not.
My goal for the day wasn’t really about the photos, but I took a bunch of shots while scuttling along anyway. I’ve always got the camera with me, never know what you’re going to see, and the only shots you miss are the ones you didn’t take. I’ve got lots of motivational mottos. Another one is ‘steel on steel, it’s the worst sound around.’
Back tomorrow.
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Do you miss the little tree on Newtown Creek?
georgetheatheist . . . arbor day
December 6, 2023 at 6:21 am
I wouldn’t say ‘miss’ so much as ‘wonder’ about it
Mitch Waxman
December 6, 2023 at 8:43 am