Quote of the Day (Ray Bradbury, on a Carnival on a Hot Summer Night)

“Tonight was one of those motionless hot summer nights. The concrete pier empty, the strung red, white, yellow bulbs burning like insects in the air above the wooden emptiness. The managers of the various carnival pitches stood, like melting wax dummies, eyes staring blindly, not talking, all down the line.”—American science fiction/fantasy fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), “The Dwarf,” in The October Country (1955)

Photo of the Day: Enter the Dragon

Another photograph I took this past Sunday (along with this one) of a carnival held at Overpeck County Park, not far from where I live in Bergen County, NJ.

Photo of the Day: A Berry, Berry Good Carnival

While walking around this afternoon at Overpeck County Park, not far from where I live in Bergen County, NJ, I snapped this photo of one of the rides at a carnival on the grounds.

Photo of the Day: Leaning Ferris Wheel

It was an optical illusion, of course, but this is how it looked to me, for a second, when I first came on the scene at an angle, at the carnival held this past weekend at Overpeck County Park in Leonia, N.J.

Photo of the Day: The Landslide Will Bring You Down

No, Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac were nowhere in evidence. But the lyrics to their Seventies hit came to mind when I saw this particular ride at a carnival held today at Overpeck County Park in Leonia, N.J., not far from where I live. As soon as I saw the name of the ride, it became a prime target for my camera. I associate carnivals overwhelmingly with summer, so this one, at the start of fall, made me think a great deal about “the seasons of my life.”