Scene on the Road

While I haven't made any official road trips this summer, I have driven around the region on regular newspaper assignments, and have tried to keep the road trip spirit of serendipity alive in me.

Even a tour of the massive GROWS landfill in Bucks County provides a unique visual opportunity when something spooks the thousands of birds.

And those weren't the only birds I photographed last week. A real estate assignment gave me the impetus to linger in Jersey Shore towns, and take my time driving home from Cape May.

It's easy to take a detour toward the shore when the light is nice. I had to laugh to myself when I found myself arriving in Wildwood rearing to go - just as most of the beach-goers were starting to leave.

I had to bypass the towns north of Wildwood for another detour - to shoot an assignment for the Daily News. The photo, of the closed Beesley's Point Bridge in Somers Point - is the first I've done since our departments have started working together.

The light was really getting pretty by the time I turned back to the shore, going to Ocean City. The beach was almost deserted.

It wasn't just that they were about the only ones still on the beach. It was all the tie-dye - and the legs on the roof of the life guard stand - that caught my eye. I walked over just as son-in-law John Kaszmetskie rushed to join the rest of the family after tripping his camera's self-timer for their annual group photo. He married one of the four daughters (they also have a son) of Mike and Michele Lill of Berks County, who have been vacationing at the Jersey Shore for over twenty years.