Despite what anyone may say about New Jersey… our gas prices are pretty good (around $2.70/gallon for regular, which is a little crummy at the moment, but still better than NY) and WE DON’T PUMP OUR OWN GAS. This can be nice, but leaving the state can freak us out. When I first brought my car to college with me in New York, I was scared stiff to fill up the tank. What if I did it wrong? What if I stood there reading the instructions and everyone laughed at me? What if I spilled it and caused a fire?
Poughkeepsie’s currently in the lead for the outside-Monmouth-County photo. Read yesterday’s post and vote now.
By the way- check out http://monmouthdailyphoto.blogspot.com and tell me what you think (here or there). I want negative criticisms.
(Please. Thank you.)
Nagle’s! There is a side window out of the range of this photo– like a drive-through, but for pedestrians. It serves ice cream, and in the summer, this is one of two ice cream shops in Ocean Grove that often has a line around the block. (I usually go to the other one, Days.)
…incidentally, I think the May theme day is “City exchange (post a photo of a city other than yours),” although I can’t be sure… every month, the DP (Daily Photo) folks find a new way to forbid me from informing myself of the monthly theme day, and I’m out of ideas of how to work around this problem. Anyway, does anyone have a city he/she wants to see?
Options:
Florence, Italy
Rome, Italy
Poughkeepsie, NY
New York, NY
Niagara Falls, ON
Louisburg, NC
Vote now. Operators are standing by.
Frank’s Deli and Restaurant in Asbury Park.
I can’t tell you anything about it because I’ve never been there.
I can tell you that “Frank’s” makes me think of “Frank’s Nursery and Crafts,” which was once a store in Long Branch off of Rte 36. I do not believe it has been open for several years now… the sign’s falling apart, the nursery is only a chain-link fence, and the parking lot is perpetually empty. I used to go there a lot when I was a kid, though.
Apparently, it’s only really just the MAPLES that are budding. Go into a maple-less area, and everything is still bare.
Southbound on Route 18.
Generally, if you want to get anywhere from here (“here” being the east side of Jersey…or at least Ocean Township), you’ve gotta take either Rte 18 or the Garden State Parkway first. The Jersey Turnpike is useful if you’re travelling up the west side of the state, though.
I’m just trying to use up my bare-tree photos ‘cos all the trees started budding while I was away. Damn!
Another train photo, Josy?
Yeah, I’m sorry. There’s a lot of activity happening at train stations, and I always find it kind of interesting. Trains stop, trains go, gates go up and down, lights flash, cars patiently pile up at the gates, people get off, people get on, people run to catch their trains… it’s a veritable three-ring circus of modern life.
Besides which, it was REALLY FREAKING HOT today. We seem to be jumping directly from winter into summer, so I need to use up my photos of bare trees before they’re completely anachronistic.
Hi! I’m back! For those of you who so kindly visited and/or commented in my absence, thank you, and I promise I’ll catch up with everything tomorrow (or possibly the next day). But right now I kind of need to crash.
Sunday, April 22 was EARTH DAY! Since I celebrated this day by pumping many hours’ worth of car fumes into the atmosphere, and since you may have missed it too, we can all celebrate it on Monday the 23, right?
Since I live in Ocean Township, commonly known simply as “Ocean,” the environmental campaign around here is “Make the motion to clean up Ocean!” This sign is stabbed into a vacant/unusable lot in my neighborhood. I’m not sure why. Maybe people are somehow compelled to litter in vacant/unusable lots, and reading this sign will stop them all in their tracks.
Anyway, littering is bad, recycling is good (someone will refute me on this, but I really can’t cite which types of recycling are worthwhile or not at the moment), and composting is the best thing you can do with your food scraps. Plant a tree.
