Random Driving Thoughts

This last weekend I drove up to my mom's for Easter. After having lived in NJ for 13 years I'm used to the drive, but it's still 5 hours in the car. With no one to talk to my thoughts tend to wander. Like a good driver (and consumer) I always tend to notice the billboards. This time I got to thinking though as more and more electronic ones seemed to be popping up. Is the electronic billboard really better? I mean, you can use a single, electronic billboard for multiple advertisements - thereby reducing the amount of unsightly & unnatural roadside decorations - but it also must require a large amount of electricity to run constantly. So which is better? More billboards that don't use electricity or fewer billboards that do? Then I thought - what if the "electric" billboards weren't really electric, but instead solar powered? Seems like a potential best of both worlds. Wonder if they exist yet?

Day at the Beach

I was fooled by the sunshine out my window into thinking that it was warmer than it was. Plus, the girls were off playing paintball and Andy was out bike riding. I was inside, cleaning and putzing around the house. Not fair. So, I grabbed my new camera and decided to head down to Sandy Hook and the beach.

I stopped first by the Twin Lighthouses in Highlands, thinking I'd get some shots there. A few, but nothing that really excited me. Do like this one of the canon.


Then I headed out onto Sandy Hook. Once I realized how cold it actually was - and how VERY windy it was - I was actually quite surprised by the number of people out. Most were surfers, but there were several people walking around or riding bikes. One bicyclist was even wearing ski goggles to help with the blowing sand. I got several decent pictures of the dunes and waves and a couple from down at the old Ft. Hancock, which is at the very tip of Sandy Hook. They still have marine biology classes here, but for the most part it seems pretty deserted. The rows of old military housing were just too freaky. Reminded me of something out of some creepy, scary mystery movie that would take place on Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard or something. Course the gray clouds and cold probably didn't help. Great photos though.