52 Week Project - Week 21

Wandering around this week I ran into something we don't really look at.  I got up close and liked the designs and shapes of this, and also the fact that my favorite color popped around it.

Ha! Can you see me?

Until next week.

Ciao!

52 Week Project - Week 20

Hello all!

What a WET week in NJ.  Becasue of that I had to stay "indoors".

This looked interesting to me.

Let me know what you think!

Until next week.

Ciao for now!

52 Week Project - Week 19

Well I'm trying to get back into my pic a week posting.  There was so much out there that I had forgotten what my goal was.  So with that said here we go.

I walked around and got random pics but this one caught my eye.

Until Next week!

Ciao!

52 Week Project - Week 18

This weeks pictures were taken at the Great Falls in Paterson, NJ.  Located at 65 Mcbride Ave.

In case your wondering what S.U.M. stands for: Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.

Hinchliffe Stadium is located right next to the Paterson Falls.  I remember going to soccer games here in the 70's.

  There is so much history at this stadium. If you're a Yankee fan like me then you'll appreciate the following excerpt from the website: www.hinchliffestadium.org:

Baseball: New York Black Yankees

"In September 1933, within their first Hinchliffe season, the New York Black Yankees played the Philadelphia Stars here in the Colored Championship of the Nation. They lost the championship, but not their momentum, opening the following season with an eight-game winning streak! The streak-ending ninth game with the Pittsburgh Crawfords came on July 28, 1934, a face-off that saw Hall-of-Famers Josh Gibson, Judy Johnson, James "Cool Papa" Bell, and Oscar Charleston all play in regular-season battle.

Rain disappointingly ended the game after 7 1/2 innings, but not before Crawfords' star Gibson and Yankee Bob Clark had both hit powerful home runs, Gibson's contributing to his League championship home-run record for that year.

On July 13, 1935, Elmer McDuffy pitched an 8-0 no-hitter at Hinchliffe Stadium against the House of David. According to the Paterson Evening News, it was "the first time such a feat had ever been turned in by by the Negro club in this territory."

Paterson's favorite son, Hall-of-Famer Larry Doby, was to be picked up by the Cleveland Indians in 1947 and break the American League color barrier. But what hometown fan can resist imagining that for the five years he was an Eagle, maybe-just maybe-he faced off at least once against the Black Yankees at Hinchliffe?"

In case you are wondering Harelick Dresner Koch CO. still exists and is now located on 126 Market St.

I hope that they can bring this stadium back to life because it's beautiful and has so much history for us Patersonians.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Until next week.

Ciao!

52 Week Project - Week 17

It was a crazy week (weather wise) in NJ.  We got lots of rain in the middle of the week but the weekend turned out to be beautiful so I was fortunate enough to visit friends and got out to enjoy the day.

First stop was to visit with my Friend Johnny "SOAP45" Vega, a very talented artist from the Paterson, NJ area.  We got to chat a little bit about his One Man show "The Crazy King Art Expo" at the Ivanhoe Art Mosaic located at 4 Spruce St. in Paterson, NJ.  I'm really looking forward to his show as I have seen his work at School 15 (see previous post) and am excited to see his work on canvas at the show.  So if you are in the Paterson area from June 4th through the 30th, 6pm to 10pm, stop in and experience the beautiful art of SOAP45 in person.

By the way I will be posting pictures a week before the event and also the week of the event. Stay tuned!

My next stop was at Lambert Castle again.  I really like this spot as it is a very nice and quiet place to sit, relax, read, listen to music (on your iPod) and just forget about your problems and get away for a minute.

If you have time read the story of Catholina Lambert's Castle.

A view of NYC from Lambert Castle.

And my last stop was at the Garret Mountain Reservation.  What a beautiful place to go for picnics, walk the trails and exercise or just to relax.  There were lots of families enjoying the day.  I was able to capture some really nice pictures people and of my town, Paterson.

This is Rt. 80 and the exit to Downtown Paterson.

Here you can clearly see Main St. Downtown Paterson.  People were taking advantage of the beautiful day to go shopping.  I wonder if my mom was there?

This is St. Johns Cathedral located on 381 Grand St. It was built in 1865 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License‎ - Wikipedia

Well, hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Until next week!

Ciao!