Obsessive & compulsive | The Newtown Pentacle
Tuesday - photo by Mitch Waxman As previously stated, one was involved with an afternoon constitutional walk on a fairly chilly afternoon recently, and my pathway carried me to the West End Bridge here in Pittsburgh. It’s the first bridge to cross the Ohio River, and found just a few hundred yards a..
Scuttle on, my wayward son | The Newtown Pentacle
Monday - photo by Mitch Waxman Climatologically speaking, it was in in the high 30’s with a stiff wind on this particular afternoon, but exercise day is exercise day and a humble narrator tries to stick to a schedule. One scuttled up the hill from HQ, and soon found himself at the Potomac ‘Red Line’..
Starts with T, ends with T, sounds like ‘tea’ | The Newtown Pentacle
Friday - photo by Mitch Waxman After a short walk, described this past week, a quick bit of waiting at the light rail station saw my chariot arrive. I’ve got a car parked back in the driveway at HQ, but give me a choice between driving and mass transit… I’m always taking the train if…
Listen for it | The Newtown Pentacle
Thursday - photo by Mitch Waxman While scuttling back to the T light rail station after a short walk, where a humble narrator hoped for transit egress back to HQ, a Norfolk Southern train was spotted rolling along its elevated tracks. Remember, yesterday, when I was musing about owning a better tele..
Meditative | The Newtown Pentacle
Wednesday - photo by Mitch Waxman Ultimately, I’m quite pleased with the 16mm wide angle lens that was recently added to my kit bag, but it has limitations that can be frustrating. I like leaving my zoom lenses at home sometimes, and using prime lenses with fixed focal lengths instead. After crackin..
Oh, the urbanity | The Newtown Pentacle
Tuesday - photo by Mitch Waxman As mentioned yesterday, a humble narrator had affixed a wide angle lens to his camera after riding Pittsburgh’s T light rail service - from HQ to the downtown section. The big building in the shot above is the U.S. Steel tower, the one at the bottom left is the&hellip..
T Time | The Newtown Pentacle
Monday - photo by Mitch Waxman An internal staccato, as offered by a humble narrator’s bones and ligaments as they ground and popped against tendons and muscle groups deep within my roadway interface, hit a somewhat epic rhythm on a recent afternoon while staggering up a steep hill which leads from ..
Walking here | The Newtown Pentacle
Friday - photo by Mitch Waxman As mentioned yesterday, I’ve been having a devil of a time with the sort of aches and pains one associates with age, and particularly so in my legs and feet. To be fair, I’ve got a full resumes worth of injuries to the roadway interface that are the source…
Frustration | The Newtown Pentacle
Thursday - photo by Mitch Waxman The weather has generally not been on my side during February, and after the trip to NYC, one has found the rubber bands in his legs and feet tightening up and offering generous amounts of discomfort. The only way out of this particular trap for me is to follow&helli..
Squaring up | The Newtown Pentacle
Wednesday - photo by Mitch Waxman Another of my constitutional scuttles occurred on one of the rare sunny days which the Pittsburgh Metro area has enjoyed in recent weeks, a scuttle which played out along the Monongahela River. The Mobile Oppression Platform was parked in an adjoining municipal park..
MonongaScuttling | The Newtown Pentacle
Tuesday - photo by Mitch Waxman After returning from NYC to Western Pennsylvania, a humble narrator really felt the toll of that exertion. Honestly, it’s the seven hour drive that does you in. It’s not a terribly challenging automotive course - I-80 to I-99, which then lead into the web of highways ..
Parting shots | The Newtown Pentacle
Monday - photo by Mitch Waxman A few parting shots from a recent visit back to NYC greet you today, as captured by an expatriate but still humble narrator. This one is from the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, looking westwards along Newtown Creek. I was still on foot for this one. My next move was to&hell..
Let’s review | The Newtown Pentacle
Friday - photo by Mitch Waxman During a brief visit back home a couple of weeks ago, which I’ve been describing all week, one made it a point of visiting all of the old familiar places. After walking up on the Kosciuszcko Bridge, I scuttled back down to the cursed earth of Queens and headed…
Up high | The Newtown Pentacle
Thursday - photo by Mitch Waxman A brief visit to the nest back in NYC occurred, and one of the few photographs I was desirous of capturing, was from up high on the Kosciuszcko Bridge. The K-bridge replacement project was something which I had the pleasure of being quite close to, and one enjoyed an..
At last… | The Newtown Pentacle
Wednesday - photo by Mitch Waxman As described in prior posts, a humble narrator was back in NYC for a few days attending to some personal business, and a point was made to get in a visit with my beloved Newtown Creek. All the familiar places… Also as described, I had driven back out here…
Aces | The Newtown Pentacle
Tuesday - photo by Mitch Waxman One found himself within the confines of the City of Greater New York a couple of weeks ago, tending to some personal business. A point was made of visiting some of the old familiar places, which obviously included the fabulous Newtown Creek, and Astoria. I had the ca..
Fourteen Months later… | The Newtown Pentacle
Monday - photo by Mitch Waxman A humble narrator stumbled out of HQ in Pittsburgh’s Borough of Dormont at about five in the morning, fired up the Mobile Oppression Platform, and then drove through the entire state of Pennsylvania into New Jersey, and then across the George Washington and Triborough ..
Bigly industry | The Newtown Pentacle
Friday - photo by Mitch Waxman Pictured in today’s post is the U.S. Steel’s Clairton Works, a gigantic industrial plant whose design and mission involves the transformation of coal into coke. The coke they process here fires the furnaces at other USS plants, notably the Edgar Thompson Steel Mill a f..
Coke, coal, & Clairton | The Newtown Pentacle
Thursday - photo by Mitch Waxman A rare sunny/warm January day found a humble narrator behind the steering wheel of his Mobile Oppression Platform, heading eastwards along the Monongahela River. My destination was the community of Clairton, where U.S. Steel maintains and operates the Clairton Works...
Gray days | The Newtown Pentacle
Tuesday - photo by Mitch Waxman After a spell of what felt like two weeks of rain and snow showers, a brief January interval occurred here in Pittsburgh during which precipitation wasn’t falling from the sky, and a humble narrator headed over to the West End Overlook park to try and capture a few sh..
Loose Grommets | The Newtown Pentacle
Tuesday - photo by Mitch Waxman Have this old man mentioned, lately, how much I hate the winter months? When I was a young but already humble narrator, Winter was one of my favorite times of the year, but life in this fairly decrepit and rapidly decaying pentagenarian pre-corpse that I inhabit finds..
Descent | The Newtown Pentacle
Monday - photo by Mitch Waxman Today’s post is populated by a few ‘odds and ends’ images left over from the longish Pittsburgh walk which I was describing to y’all last week. I’m a bit out of touch with those posts, as I’ve been ‘on the road’ for the last week and administering Newtown Pentacle&hell..
