Walking in Jonah's Shadow

Linus Gelber

MarSec (Marine Security) is at its usual tiresome Level 2 in New York - elevated but not quite screaming in terror, is the best we can figure - which means anyone wearing a uniform can routinely violate your civil rights for no particular reason at all. I snap the ferry docking ramp anyway. Find me a terrorist who cares about a ramp in Staten Island and you're just looking too hard, I say.

Here the Sen. John J. Marchi churns water up against the St. George Terminal on Staten Island while the exit ramps lower down onto the forward deck.

The ongoing and evolving Utata Thursday Walk project is a straightforward one - take the camera, go for a walk. See what comes of it.

This image is from my fourth Thursday outing - the sixth one overall, but I've sat a couple out. I generally do them on Fridays, but I've been off work for the last couple of weeks, so Thursday is fine. Technically it's supposed to happen before noon, but I've made an executive decision that sunrise is when I get out of the house, so.

Today is haircut day, and Danielle in Staten Island is my Sole Licensed Practitioner (accept no substitutes). She's overseen my hair from the foot-long ponytail days, through the uh-oh Mousse Period, up to the "that's not a bald spot back there, is it?" panics of the Modern Era. I don't get out there often, but I always enjoy the trip.

See the rest of my Thursday Walk images in the Getting the Hang of Thursdays set.

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