TV Quote of the Day (‘Gilmore Girls,’ on What Lorelai Will Do to Impress a Cute Guy)

[Sookie is frosting a cake, with Lorelai sitting next to her.]

Lorelai (played by Lauren Graham): “Dumb, dumb, dumb.”

Sookie (played by Melissa McCarthy): “Oh, come on.”

Lorelai: “Sure, I fish. I also bodysurf and walk on the moon without a space suit.”

Sookie: “You were trying to impress him.”

Lorelai: “Ugh.”

Sookie: “What ugh? You like him.”

Lorelai: “I like him, but I’m not sixteen. I don’t lie to guys to make them like me. I just got stuck when he said fishing and camping, and I was trying to be nice and not say, ‘Fishing? Great – cold, wet, and smelly. My three favorite things after those witches from Macbeth.’”—Gilmore Girls, “Lorelai Out of Water,” Season 3, Episode 12, original air date  Jan. 28, 2003, teleplay by Janet Leahy, directed by Jamie Babbit

Quote of the Day (Ernest Hemingway, on Fishing as a ‘Tragic Adventure’)

“In the swamp the banks were bare, the big cedars came together overhead, the sun did not come through, except in patches; in the fast deep water, in the half-light, the fishing would be tragic. In the swamp fishing was a tragic adventure. Nick did not want it. He didn't want to go up the stream any further today.” ― Ernest Hemingway, “Big Two-Hearted River,” from In Our Time  (1925)

Photo of the Day: Trout Fishing, Garfield NJ

Admittedly, “trout fishing” is not the phrase that springs to mind when I think of Garfield, a city on the western edge of Bergen County, NJ, with a gritty industrial past that has left a residue in the form of chromium water contamination from a spill at its E.C. Electroplating Corporation site.

But in driving past a few years ago, I noticed how the area along the Passaic River had been cleaned up (something I discussed in this prior post). And, from working in the city more than a quarter century ago, I recalled a park a few blocks away.

The 10-acre Dahnert's Lake County Park, along Midland Avenue, is stocked with trout beginning the second week of April. I took this photograph of one optimistic fisherman there a week ago.

Photo of the Day: Waiting for One at the End of the Line

I snapped this picture on Sunday at Saddle River County Park in Saddle Brook, NJ—part of an afternoon’s session of extensive photography that also yielded this blog post from the other day.

Photo of the Day: A Man, a Rod, and a River

The image accompanying this post was one of the more dramatic photos I took last week of the Passaic River, which I described the other day in my piece on Riverfront Park in Garfield, NJ.