Archive for April 28th, 2025
Left over’s Monday
Monday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The best part of roasting a chicken for me, beyond how it makes the house smell, are the succession of chicken sandwiches you get as leftovers. Today’s post is one of those sandwiches.
As is the case with any long walk, there’s always a few photos which I like but didn’t use as it would have been difficult to shoehorn them into the particular tales I’m telling (and I’m really trying to be a bit more concise these days and keep it down to just three shots per post, unless I’ve got something I really want to show). To wit, that Mack truck above, fitted out with a pumping system.
This is a concrete pump truck, operated by a local construction outfit called ‘Trumbull,’ and that collection of pipes and hinges on its bed unreels and then extends up and out, allowing concrete to be delivered to several building stories above whatever construction project the truck is assigned to. Neat.
Man oh man, have I ever missed taking walks like this one.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The 16th street David McCullough Bridge was mentioned but not depicted in a post from last week, and that’s rectified above.
Again, I have certain limitations at the moment due to the ongoing recovery from the busted ankle. Normal circumstance would have seen me slip down to the water’s edge and set up a tripod for my filtered lens. This would be foolhardy at the moment, and I’m not entirely sure that I’d be able to climb back up the slope in my current state.
As my capabilities have been returning, it’s become a bit easier to explore and walk about, hence it’s become less of an ‘I have nothing’ situation (as far as photos go) where I’m writing a post the same day it’s meant to publish. Lead time is critical when you’re publishing five times a week. This post, for instance, was largely completed by last Thursday, and is being scheduled to publish on last Saturday morning. By the end of next month, I’m hoping to have things operating at least a couple of weeks ahead of the publishing date again.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Enigmatic, the 1905 vintage Immaculate Heart of Mary RC church looms high over a neighborhood I passed by called ‘Polish Hill.’ I still haven’t found the opportunity to get the camera inside of this place, as I vowed to do in this 2023 post. I’m going to head over there sometime soon and make nice with the people there, so hopefully I’ll get permission to record the interior scene.
I say it all the time – ‘it’s not about the gear, or the experience in operating the camera, photography is about the social networking which opens the doors to places that other people can’t get into.’
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