Why walk with no camera???

Took a Bronx walk this morning, almost 6 miles, zigzag around 149/138, then a shot up the valley east of the Concourse, ending at Tremont and Webster.

Then a straight shot, almost 4 miles, this afternoon, from Westchester Square, straight up Williamsbridge, across Allerton, skirting the Botanical Gardens, again crossing Webster.

I wouldn’t have taken many photos, but…

• The red-tailed hawk perched precariously on an upper window ledge, at Hostos Community College.
• The monument to Major Deegan (real guy. think he doled out lots of patronage)
• The east west side of Franz Sigel Park – damp and dank and shady and musty… (west, west, not east, which I’ve walked by dozens of times. This was my first time on the Walton side)
• Some of the narrow streets around the Hub. I forgot they were so small.
• The funny mix of old buildings and newer houses and remaining empty lots and community gardens along Sherman Avenue.
• The mall in Mt Eden Parkway.
• Some good shots capturing both the Cross Bronx and regular people stuff, like playgrounds, buildings, stores. How can such a busy, choked, pollution-generating gash of concrete have been built right where people live and sleep? NIMBY? Not in anyone’s backyard!
• Pelham Parkway. Driving it, it’s easy to forget what an oasis it is.
• Mulberries and Lindens. Images of favorite tastes and smells.
• The Bronx River, flowing swiftly.
• Chipmunk. He would have disappeared before I could snap his picture, but I would have tried.

if I’d brought a camera.