Veterans Day

"Welcome to Concord." After a year plus of discord, it was calming to see this sign along with the World War II memorial at the intersection of Clove Road and Targee Street on Staten Island.

The plaque on the memorial reads:

ERECTED AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THE HEROIC MEN AND WOMEN OF CONCORD, STATEN ISLAND, AS A TRIBUTE TO THE SELF SACRIFICING SPIRIT THAT THEY DISPLAYED IN THEIR COUNTRY'S SERVICE DURING THE MOMENTOUS YEARS OF 1941-1945.

"MAY GOD'S BLESSINGS REST UPON THEM."

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Lane Shift

Can't help but thinking there is an analogy here to the presidential election yesterday. Is it a temporary aberration that reroutes us directly into oncoming traffic, not to speak of dividing us? Will we ever come back?

Election Day

Polling place with a view.

The spelling is a bit off but the spirit is right.

Wall Weary

Looking something like a green submarine, the newest section of "uplands" takes shape and color in Brooklyn Bridge Park. It blocks the view of the harbor from the BQE, and I have yet to see a park visitor climbing its inclined path.

Perhaps its a prototype for Trump's wall with Mexico. I'd prefer the wall of Taco Trucks that assembled to protest Trump's candidacy at the Las Vegas debate.

Haunted House

Very scary...

Clove Road, Staten Island

Be Here Now

Can you read the writing on the wall?

A fresco many years (decades?) in the making on the side of a house beside the BQE near Clinton Hill.

Love Is Not Free

Robert Indiana knock-off, or the real thing behind bars on Teleport Drive, S.I.?