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Sandy Brook

July 28th, 2013



I believe this is Sandy Brook, anyway. A couple of creeks flow through the woods here in Bloomingdale Park.

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Cicada remains

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The "hotly anticipated" brood of 17-year (a prime number, of course) periodical cicadas that emerged from the ground to mate this spring was largely absent from the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Staten Island, however, was another story, as evidenced by the countless molted exoskeletons littering the forest floor here in Bloomingdale Park. It's been a banner year for the borough's cicadaphiles, most notably those at the Staten Island Museum — home to the world's second-largest collection of cicadas — which has devoted a yearlong exhibition to the creature.

(Does the photo above make you hungry? If so, you're in luck: just check out these cicada cooking suggestions and then wait 17 years — bon appétit!)

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Portal of the day

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Perfect conditions for fake palm trees

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Cosmonaut

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An explorer in the cosmos

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9/11 memorial #162

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That green rectangular thing covering the trailer hitch is a replica of a (or perhaps an actual) Claymore mine.

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Did you know?

July 28th, 2013



"N.Y.C. DOT put up the first automated traffic light here in 1916!!!"

So claims this handwritten sign taped to a pedestrian signal pole at the intersection of Huguenot Avenue and Amboy Road in Staten Island. I'm not sure exactly what this is supposed to mean, and I can't find anything online to clarify the matter.

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Swamp rose mallow

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thriving in the Wolfe's Pond Bluebelt

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WWW.BUYPALMTREES.COM

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reads a little metal label affixed to the tree.

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X

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Another Bluebelt swamp

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Brainball

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a.k.a. Osage orange

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Bunches of brown leaves

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Branch flagging — another vestige of the recent cicada invasion

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’67 Chevy Nova

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Looks like it's been parked here since about '68.

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Carlton and Drumgoole

July 28th, 2013



A DOT palimpsest! See if you can make out the previous destination this sign pointed toward. Here's a larger version of the photo, and here's the answer.

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Front-yard memorial

July 28th, 2013



VARIOUS ARTICLES USED IN
RELIGIOUS SERVICES OF ALL FAITHS
WERE DONATED IN MEMORY OF

ERNEST P. PALCIC, JR., SP. 4

WHO GAVE HIS LIFE
IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY
VIET NAM — JANUARY 24, 1968

BY THE EMPLOYEES OF
WILLOWBROOK STATE SCHOOL
AND THE
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY FOR RETARDED CHILDREN
APRIL 1969

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Giant auger bits

July 28th, 2013



For drilling sewer lines, I believe