Captive photons
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Today brings you another ‘odds and ends’ post, populated by photos gathered during various walks that didn’t quite fit into other narrative posts describing the effort. Your humble narrator is operating a bit closer to the actual chronological time that you’re reading this, as well. Pretty much the entire month of September’s offerings were written and scheduled for publication by the last week of August.
This post, and the seven or eight which will directly follow it, are being written during the last week of September.
Pictured above is the Duquesne Incline, one of Pittsburgh’s two remaining funicular railways.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Pictured is a gas station, at the center of Pittsburgh’s Borough of Dormont, where Newtown Pentacle HQ currently resides.
I’ve been keeping busy during this interval, taking advantage of a late summer bloom of heat to get busy kicking a bunch of dirt while scuttling, and burning out mile after mile. I’m back on the ‘twice a week’ schedule, finally. By the time winter rolls in, it should be back to my standard ‘two short walks of about five miles each, with a weekend walk of about ten miles’ built into my schedule. The one year anniversary for the broken ankle sailed through on the 18th of September, during which I was out and taking a fairly long walk.
Too legit to quit, me. Quite stoppable, I am, but only temporarily so.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Mount Oliver is a residential neighborhood that’s nearby Dormont, and I found myself cooling my heels there for a bit, waiting on a ‘thing.’ I had parked the Mobile Oppression Platform in a convenient spot and then realized that a nearby graveyard was set into an elevated plinth. That put my POV at more or less coffin level, given where I was sitting. Can’t resist that sort of thing, me.
There’s lots of things I can’t resist.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Occasion found me waltzing through Dormont, accompanying Our Lady of the Pentacle on one of her many missions. She was doing a bunch of things and I decided to just sit down at a coffee shop, grab a ‘cuppa’ and hang out nearby the T light rail station while waiting for her to finish up.
An ancillary benefit of this coffee break was having a nice ‘perch’ to shoot photos of passing rail sets from.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Hey, there’s that same gas station again.
I’ve been trying to force myself into executing a short road trip during the next few weeks, to take advantage of ‘leaf season’ in the ‘burning hills of Pennsylvania’ – as it’s called.
Either Altoona or Oil City are on my list (possibly both), for sometime in mid October. I’m also quite desirous of experiencing a proper Halloween this year.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
‘Odds and ends’ presentations and commentary for this Thursday post is hereby finished. Go ponder something, lords and ladies. PONDER!
Tomorrow, back with something different.
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