Where I spent the majority of my pre-adult life, the leaves were already gone come Halloween. Here, they're peaking. Some trees are still green while others have barren branches ... and yet others are brilliant yellows and reds. Autumn is my favorite time of year as the weather is usually pleasant, not too hot nor too cold, and the foliage can be breathtaking.
Daylight Savings Time is coming late this year. I expected it last weekend or perhaps this one. Nope! It's not until next week. Who decides these things? Is there a way they could strive for consistency from year to year? What's up with that? I want my extra hour of sleep!
Our weird weather continues. In the early part of the week it was warm and even a bit muggy. Then we went down to freezing Saturday morning. I'm actually a fan of brisk weather -- I like temperatures in the low 50s in the morning, perhaps to 70 in the afternoon. I guess we won't see many days like that for a while.
Things are pretty much same old-same old around here. So, it's onto the photos from the week. Clicking on an image will open it larger in a new window.
Vincent, look! Mice!
There were mice on my NJ Transit train last night, as well as Grim Reapers, vampires, (fake) ladies of the evening, clowns, you name it. These two girls are two of the Three Blind Mice. The other one was in the seat facing them as they were in a four-seater. Accompanying them was Wendy from Wendy's (don't ask me, I don't get the connection), but he wasn't wearing his wig.
All were heading into the city (NYC) for parties. With Halloween on a Sunday evening, lots of parties were held Saturday. The big Greenwich Village parade is tonight and the train will be costumed once again. I won't be on it. I'll be home, yes!
BOO!
A store window on East Front Street in Plainfield. Note the police car in the reflection. It was weird. I would stop, sometimes sit on a bench, take some shots and he'd park. I'd move along, he'd creep along. Then if I stopped again, he'd stop and park until I moved again. I don't think I look suspicious. Maybe they're just not used to people walking along taking photos downtown.
The Value Man
This building is really cool. I wonder what it housed in its early days. East Front Street, Plainfield.
I'd like some ETC, please
Got to love the mix of Spanish and English in neon. Envios is shipping and tarjetas are cards. Don't ask me what's included in etc. But I want one! The corner of East Front Street and Park Avenue, Plainfield. Edited to leave the neon in color.
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
Does anybody really care?
- Chicago - "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
No, it's not 11:36 (and a half). This is more like the clock in the old Mamas and Papas song "Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)" -
I used to live in New York City;
Everything there was dark and dirty.
Outside my window was a steeple
With a clock that always said twelve-thirty.
Everything there was dark and dirty.
Outside my window was a steeple
With a clock that always said twelve-thirty.
But this is Plainfield. We march to our own beat, keep our own time. And that time is always 11:36 (and a half). Park Avenue, but there no longer is a Park Jewelers there.
Reflections Part Deux
I guess I'm just a sucker for reflections in windows. Here, the businesses across the street are reflected in the Park Madison Office Building. Park Avenue in Plainfield. When I first moved here there was no building there. It was an odd park with benches all around the edges and perhaps two sidewalks to the middle ... lots of grass and signs to stay off the grass.
Too windy for chess
The chess tables sit empty as the temperatures drop and the winds pick up. Park Avenue and East Front Street, Plainfield. And what time is it?
Old, new and a change of seasons
The old PNC bank pillars, the Park Madison Office Building and colorful leaves. Park Avenue, Plainfield.
I'd like to make an apartment in there
This building has been vacant for more than a few years. Its windows are so cool! These are actually the second and third floors. Supposedly there are all kinds of plans for this and the PNC bank ... including some apartments. Seeing how slow some things are done (cough:::The Monarch:::cough) around here, I better not count on 'em. Park Avenue, Plainfield.
Standing in the railway station
Got a ticket for my destination
-- "Homeward Bound" by Simon and Garfunkel
Got a ticket for my destination
-- "Homeward Bound" by Simon and Garfunkel
Okay, he had it as sitting. I took creative liberties! Plainfield Train Station
C-c-c-an't bloom!
The weeds came to life in the warm weather, then the cold made them refuse to come to full bloom.
Storm clouds move in
Plainfield Train Station Tuesday just around sunset.
Pretty colors
Bridgewater Promenade Shopping Center, Bridgewater, NJ.
Sunrise by the ball park
The boys of summer are gone from the TD Ballpark in Bridgewater (by the train station).
Jus' chillaxin'
Ready to face another day. Plainfield Train Station.
Police activity!
Hey, this is outside MY window! (Hence the camera focusing on the screen as it was still in the "heat wave.") There was some kind of parking kerfuffle but nothing which warranted police. But then the riff raff neighbor whose tires were slashed the night before was screaming that the cops need to lock up so-and-so who slashed her tires. I just want the riff raff neighbor to move. No one else in the building has people honking horns and screaming up at their windows at all hours.
We're talking pea soup
One morning the fog was outright ridiculous. The dark line in this photo is a pole right near me. You can barely see the sun. Some of you will recognize the sign -- it's the one ripped apart by a storm earlier this year. But what you can't see is all the parked cars in the Bridgewater Train Station parking lot!
It wasn't as foggy when I left Plainfield that morning
This was before I hit the bad fog. Plainfield Train Station.
The train! The train!
Autumn Leaves
At the Plainfield Train Station
Watchung Avenue in the pre-dawn
Yep, it's all lighted up. As an ex-neighbor in my building referred to our parking lot lights ... those are RUDE lights.
Are you comfortable, Vincent?
His overbite shows.
How was your week?
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