Pelham Bay Signs of Life
As today we explored the vast Van Cortland Park in the Bronx, I was reminded of our last Pelham Bay outing and quite a few signs of life.
Pelham Bay is just about as far as we can reach on public transit without hopping on a train proper and leaving the Five Boroughs behind. Getting there requires a long ride to the very end of the 6 subway line and a slingshot on the Bx29 bus towards City Island.
But once dropped off the bus in the middle of nowhere, the rewards are plenty. Nice woods, lots of shoreline, small wildlife and plenty of foraging tease, and as always when venturing thus far from the megacity, enough oddness to keep one guessing.
Afloat
All Creatures Great and Small
Marie and I are not dog people, but... We do get caught "en flagrant délit d'humanité"* as the late Marcel Pagnol put it so well.
X-rated
PG 13 (Photo Marie Viljoen)
Dogs are high maintenance.
No comments (Photos Marie Viljoen)
Sometimes, we dirty them.
Back from Mordor
Then we clean them up.
Wild at heart
Still. Cats rock. See here for living proof.
Multilevel housing
We like to dress cats up and freeze them for later.
Estorbo's igloo
We like birds.
Feeding the people
Feeding the people
I socialize with underwater folks.
Playing with Ben the Grouper (Self protrait)
Friendly patrol (Self portrait)
She loves horses.
At the Nelson Wine Estate, home of my favorite Shiraz (Photo credit unknown)
Riding in the Maluti Mountains
We dig game.
So we hang out with penguins.
Daring visitor
Beach bums
We befriend thieves.
Bandido
Baboons walking the line, we tolerate.
The gang
In the end, we are all the same. But some of us are more alike than others.
* Caught in the act of being human, or humane.
You know…we haven’t had a guilty meatball fix for a while :-)
Let’s fix that tonight, even though they won’t be Sweedish…
I love it when you guys exchange comments on a post, probably from
the living room to the bedroom… With Estorbo mewing for food forth and back. So family like… ;-)
Well, sometimes we might be as far as all the way across a river…