suns along the Mohawk

. . . “attractive nuisance” at the end of Washington Ave.

National Grid was formerly known around here as NiMo — Niagara Mohawk Power — a name that we Upstate natives recall fondly in retrospect (no matter how often it came out as a four-letter epithet during power outages in decades past).  This week, National Grid is “enhancing the infrastructure” on Washington Avenue here in the Schenectady Stockade by burying new cable/tubing, and banning parking from 6 AM to 6 PM.  At the end of the workday yesterday, the NG crew left some of its large construction equipment at the end of the block, at the deadend that overlooks the Mohawk River.

Although I was born much too soon to be a Bob the Builder tyke, the huge yellow vehicles constituted for me what tort lawyers call an “attractive nuisance” — “a hazardous object or condition on the land that is likely to attract children who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object or condition.” Thus, I found myself at 8:30 yesterday evening, climbing on and closely inspecting a couple of back-hoe-ish and asphalt-ripping pieces of heavy equipment.  Since I brought my Canon PowerShot along, the result was a NiMo Sunset that took advantage of my new toys and props.  To wit:

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. . . . .  So far this morning (as of 10 AM), the National Grid crew has not made an appearance.  That probably means the Washington Avenue deadend will be a little boy’s construction site playground again tonight.  And, I’m going to have to work hard to resist the temptation to enjoy yet another Niagara Mohawk sunset.