Looking south to the George Washington Bridge, near the Dyckman Street entrance and the lower level of the park…
My walk already started out special. I passed this, what appears to be a devotion, along the banks of the Hudson.
Not so unusual, actually. Inwood is a special community.
I’ve posted this view before, but not from this perspective, at sea level, the fjords (palisades) across the Hudson.
Looking north towards the Tappan Zee, up the Hudson…
Just a little bit further to the right of the above image, a bridge for Amtrak and the entrance of the short Harlem River…
Here’s the bridge that takes you over RR tracks, deeper into the park. This is the first time I crossed the bridge because I’d always been on skates before...
I didn’t wait here more than a minute…
when a train came by…
Inwood Park is the closest you get to an expanse of “woods” in Manhattan, and considering what most perceptions are of Manhattan, it’s pretty incredible…
As soon as you cross the tracks, “street” lamps from a by-gone age mark the path…
Can you see both lamp posts in the woods?
I will leave off with this. The tunnel ahead leads the traveler under the southbound Henry Hudson Parkway. This is where I encountered something that I realized, later when I looked closely at the pictures, was Robert Frost’s The Tuft of Flowers. I mean that explicitly; considering the country:city thing, this is not even a metaphor, but exactly and really what Robert Frost experienced that caused him to express the beautiful sentiment in that wonderful poem (which is included at the end). Follow closely…
Here is the tunnel as you approach…
Notice the tunnel has been painted midway up, first a peach color, and another coat of white paint came later…
The view through the tunnel…
But down to the left upon entering the tunnel, in the dirt, started by someone, at some time, a mosaic of flowers.
The flower mosaic was installed between the two coats of paint. Look how the painter who came later was careful to avoid getting paint on it…
It’s literally this poem. Two workers met without meeting. The latter appreciated what the former had done, and in so doing, came to see the world a bit differently…
Thank you for the revisit to Inwood park and the train tracks. I have 3 tiles like the ones pasted to the paint. Thanks for the poem, too. I'm 'wildered by your keen eye.
ReplyDeleteand, furthermore, the view of my old apt in the dyckman swing bridge pic. i think the fruits are for the dead, possibly someone killed there. I used to come across the same on Palisade Ave. usually a cake and some coins as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Susan--that makes sense. Rob
ReplyDeleteThanks, Rob. This blog is terrific. I've walked on the other side of the river, under the "fjords", and appreciate seeing them from the NY perspective. Inwood Park is amazing. Looking forward to reading more.
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