MLK & G.Cleveland
Who'd-a thunk that MLK and Grover Cleveland should have anything in common. Not much of anyone, including me. This Monday in the United States we honor Martin Luther King. Dr. King taught by example that we all can become a better people, that violence is not a solution to anything, and that a yearning for freedom is embedded in the soul of each one of us and must be respected.
So, how is any of this connected to Grover Cleveland (I know, some of you probably had to look up who Grover Cleveland was..)? Well, not much to nothing. But I made a connection in this transparency. Photographed from a draw bridge in the Atlantic Highlands (NJ) looking up at the mouth of the fast moving Navesink River on 19 January 2004, Martin Luther King Day of the coldest winter in NJ since Grover Cleveland was president (his second term 'i think' i wasn't around then.) The compacted ice was really amazing in person. It was rather cold, in the teens and a rather brisk wind chill. I didn't waste much time on that bridge, but i did get a couple BW in this direction and a chrome looking down river from the other side of the bridge.
On the right is Sandy Hook National Gateway Recreation Area, and in the horizon NYC. To the left on the horizon is one of the towers of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge (think movie 'Saturday Night Fever'), connecting Staten Island with Long Island; the narrows being the entry to the Hudson River. Of course in 2004 the Twin Towers were gone. The prominent landmark of the skyline reverts back to the Empire State Building, all this not clearly seen in this posted poor image but smacking sweet on the 4x5 transparency.
