As EYE See It! - The Brooklyn Bridge.

It's very easy to live in a city - any city - and overlook it's inherent beauty. I had some business to take care of in the downtown Brooklyn area. I went to the Celeste Diner - the one at the very beginning of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Now, this doesn't have anything to do with this blog entry really - just venting!  A pet peeve of mine is incorrectly delivered food... Let me explain. I ordered scrambled eggs with cheese and what I got was a feeble attempt at an omelet with a few slices of cheese slapped on top. <Sigh>. The bacon was weird - it was perfectly flat! Now I'm a city girl with deep southern roots so bacon to me, whether or not it's crispy, is supposed to have the waves! Cooked bacon is not supposed to be flat. Period!  To end the meal on a positive note, I'll say that the pancakes were good! 

So after paying 10 bux for this travesty of a meal, I thought I'd walk off the breakfast by taking a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge.

I hadn't done that in a long time, the sky was as beautifully blue and as clear as it could possibly be and the sun made me an offer I couldn't refuse.  This mini-journey over the bridge was very different than the last time. As a photographer, I see beauty in things that I would have normally overlooked. I now find interesting the things that I once thought were completely boring.  So the Brooklyn Bridge is no longer just a span that goes from Brooklyn to Manhattan.  Now it's a relationship amongst wood, steel, concrete, nuts, bolts, cables, and the most amazing mix of people!   Walkers, drivers, bikers, skaters, bladers and stroller and scooter riders share this fabulous space.

So the next time you need to cross the east river, consider taking a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge and see it again for the first time!