Paul Goldfinger. Dusk. August 12, 2021. Ocean Grove, NJ. Click to enlarge.
LAURA NYRO: “Stoned Soul Picnic.”
OCEAN GROVE: Broadway at Benson. Unusual house for Ocean Grove. Photos by Paul Goldfinger. 9/3/26
Paul Goldfinger photograph. 9/3/26.
WE HAVE A WINNER: It’s Ocean Grove at Broadway and Benson.
This home is very original for the Grove. Its design is eye-catching and offers seating at first floor level onto two streets: Broadway and Benson where chatting with passersby would be inviting, ie conducive to our Ocean Grove “porch culture.”
It looks like a single story layout, but there appear to be second floor decks. It has lovely gardens on the two front yards. Perhaps it is a second home.
We were so attracted to it that if it were for sale, we might have whipped out our checkbook. It seems ideal for retirees who need no stairs.
Eileen and I have lived in the Grove since 2002, and we have never noticed this home before, but we almost never ride on Broadway. I spotted it as we drove by yesterday to check out photos at the beach, and we both were drawn to it.
I stopped and got out to photograph it with my i.phone. I may return with my “big boy” Leica monochrome camera for low light views.
Send your entry to Blogfinger@verizon.net. One guess to a customer.
9/4/26: We have a winner. It is Jeff at 5:54 am on 9/4;
Three others also identified this Ocean Grove house: second is Sam. 6:52 am; third is Silverfox at 7:48 am. And then Lenora at 10:47 am.*
Jeff wins an original signed black and white darkroom print by published photographer Paul Goldfinger of Blogfinger.net. These prints are all limited editions.
Jeff just email me your name, email and address and we will deliver or mail your photo prize.
From Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. Elaine Stritch performs “Broadway Baby” with the New York Philharmonic:
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Paul Goldfinger photo 2010
Mauro told me that Vicki was the most beautiful woman he ever knew.
“Run to Me.” Bee Gees
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Mt. Hermon, Israel. Photo source: The Children’s Village of Jerusalem
Mt. Tabor, Israel. near the Sea of Galilee. It is the site of a biblical battle between the Israelites and the army of the Canaanites.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net.
The founders of Ocean Grove named some streets at the North End after actual elevated geographic sites in Israel. They were admirers of the Israelites and the Holy Land and they had a model of Jerusalem (1881) where the Auditorium Pavilion is now. Some called Ocean Grove “Jerusalem-By-the Sea.” The holiness movement strived to declare OG a holy city.
Postcard. Boston Public Library.
All those North End streets say “Way” as part of their street names; for example, Mt. Hermon Way, and some refer to that part of Ocean Grove as “the mountains of OG.”
Mt. Hermon Way. Paul Goldfinger photo.
Mount Hermon is a mountain cluster found between Syria and Lebanon, but its southern aspect is found in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the north. Its highest point is 9,232 feet.
Mt. Tabor is the site of a major battle in ancient times where 10,000 Judeans (Jews) were killed fighting their enemy.
Mt. Zion is a hill near Jerusalem.
Mt. Carmel is a mountain range near Jerusalem.
HAGEVATRON: “Jerusalem of Gold.” From the album “23 Most Famous Israeli Folk Songs.” Sung in Hebrew. Written by Naomi Sherer in 1967
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Eileen. Age 16. Machine photograph. Reposted from 2016. She was a blind date at a Fairleigh Dickinson University frat party.
KEN PEPLOWSKI and FRIENDS “All the Things You Are.” (From The International All Stars Play Benny Goodman.). Read the comment.
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Fall cottages on Stockton Avenue in Ocean Grove. Near Allegria. People love the OG cottages. Blogfinger photo 11/7/17 .
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
JOHN DONNE: “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
There is something special about the Stockton Avenue neighborhood where these two identical cottages live. It doesn’t seem Victorian. The architecture is variable, and the houses are mostly small in scale. They look like homes where families live and where pies are baked.
It has a quality of peacefulness and quaintness, as if it were posing for a book on small town America.
One might assume that the people who live nearby can’t bear the sight of that brick senior facility, but I think they must look there and see a park. And they also see elderly people who love living there. It is their home in this neighborhood.
Around Stockton Avenue there is a community, and it seems to be about kindness and comfort. It looks like all those who live there might share those sentiments.
Allegria residence for seniors now known as Seaton. Location is Stockton Avenue in OG. Click to see who lives there. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
HARRY JAMES AND HIS ORCHESTRA. From Woody’s film: Hannah and Her Sisters
And here’s a link to a Blogfinger post where sharing a cunning cottage is just the thing.
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St. Patrick’s Day parade. Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park. March 11, 2018. Paul Goldfinger © Blogfinger.net.
SESAME STREET with The Fugees. “Just Happy to Be Me.”
@otpulse The Fugees on Sesame Street singing “Be Yourself” #90s #90skids #90sthrowback #seasamestreet #thefugees #wyclefjean #laurynhill #trending
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Ocean Grove beach. September 29, 2015. By Michael Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net staff. © Click to enlarge
LEONARD BERNSTEIN “On the Waterfront. Moving Forward.” with the ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. Album is the Essential Leonard Bernstein, Disc 2
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Guest photographer Jeffrey Scott calls this image “Two Pears.” I found the photo in Black & White magazine, current edition. December 2025. He is from Greenwood Village, Colorado.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, NJ. USA.
Jeffrey Scott currently lives on Long Island. Like me, he does both color and black and white. This image appeals to me because of the soft lighting. It is a simple still life with no pretensions. The feel of the image is sensual. The shades of gray complement the mood where the modest highlights on the pears agree with the rest of the gentle composition which reveals a handmade quality to the bowl with the background painted leaves and olives.
It looks like an image that I might try to make. (See my soft landscape below of Fletcher Lake)
Fletcher Lake. Ocean Grove winter, 2015. Paul Goldfinger
Below is a link to a Blogfinger post that features a fruit—a black and white image by the great Paul Caponigro:
BF post featuring a fruit by a famous photographer
And here is a still life of mine with a lighthearted theme:
DAVE BRUBECK with some gentle jazz: Leonard Bernstein. “Somewhere”. Paul Desmond on alto sax.
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Bethany works at “Hey Peach Bakery” in Bradley Beach. She is new and enthusiastic. She’d like to become a chef , but currently she’s a peach. Paul Goldfinger portrait. 9/3/26.Click once to enlarge. I go there to visit my French photographs, James, Erin, Mel and now Bethany. They’re all peaches. Eileen tagged along today and bought cream puffs for me and Stephen. Wow!
“Amor” by Eydie Gorme with the Trio Los Panchos. I bet that Bethany could play the rhythmic claves with the Trio.
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Estero, Fla. Paul Goldfinger. Jan 23, 2020 ©
Video below by Diana Krall, Yo-Yo Ma, and John Clayton: Album–“Songs of Joy and Peace” Grammy winner 2008. Song “You couldn’t Be Cuter” was written by Jerome Kern (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyric) in 1938 for the movie Joy of Living.
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OG beach. August 24, 2020. Blogfinger photo.
HURRICANE SMITH:
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Paul Goldfinger photo and grandson. Nov. 20, 2020. Mallomars appear early September as a high mountain of boxes at Wegmans. They are $4.00 for two. (half price). This photo at Wegmans.
A box of Mallomars—one hundred years apart.
That’s me at Wegmans. 9/2/26. My favorite cookie just reappeared. Eileen bought 2 boxes. Eileen Goldfinger photo.
By Paul Goldfinger, Mallomar addict at Blogfinger.net
Mallomars are seasonal treats from September to March. It is a cookie with dark chocolate surrounding a cake base and the rest marshmallow. It is especially favored in the New York area, although it is made in Canada. The young man above was taking his first Mallomar on a test drive. He ate his and stole mine.
Two of those wonderful treats add up to 140 calories, but some of us Mallomar fans can eat an entire box at one sitting.
From NPR:
Many memories are about hoarding. People buy as many boxes as they can freeze, then carefully parcel them out during the off-season.
There also are a lot of stories about hiding cookies and stealing them from siblings. One man wrote, “I just hide in the closet and eat them.”
There are memories of a mother buying two boxes at a time, one for the family and one for her secret stash. There’s also a grandfather who hid them in an unused wood-burning stove.
What people don’t do with Mallomars is share.
They are about $4.00 per box, but who cares?
Enjoying these cookies is a passionate experience.
From Sesame Street it’s the Cookie Monster:
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