Day 222: Statement of the Obvious

That's certainly true, for the time being.

Day 221: A Tree Grows in Harlem

Curious place for a tree, seen today on 126th Street.

Day 220: Commuter Sentence

New M8 arrives at New Haven station, with two previous generations of equipment in the background.

I feel like I've spent a lot of time on these trains lately.

Day 219: All the Way Home

Made me smile this morning.

Day 218: Unique Storage

I guess Manhattanites have to store their bike collections somewhere.

Day 217: Disaster Strikes

Presenting: the last photo I'll take with my 18-55mm lens for the foreseeable future, a not-great attempt to transpose the lobby lamp onto the outside awning.

Shortly after this was taken my camera fell to the sidewalk and the lens absorbed most of the damage. It isn't mounting on the body properly. The camera itself seems to be okay with my 55-200 but I'll get a better sense of that tomorrow in tests. And will take the whole thing in for diagnostics and repairs in a couple weeks when I can afford it.

Day 216: Against the Darkness

Fighting to move forward.

Day 215: M8

I know, not the fanciest picture. For only the second time ever I got to ride in one of the new M8s on Metro-North's New Haven line. They are such a radical improvement it's not even funny. Quiet, pleasant, well-lit, electrical outlets... it's so much nicer to commute in a train built less than 40 years ago.

Day 214: Much to Fix

Forgive the bad photo. I spent most of my free evening figuring out the steps to fixing the next set of problems.

Nevertheless, this is an interesting artifact from a distant time in life.

Day 213: Back Across the Lake

Vacation is always too short.

Schroon was really delightful this year. Everyone has such cute babies / dogs / significant others /siblings.

I guess it was one of those moments to take stock of how much I'm changing, and to be glad to have old friends who can keep right up with it.