Hopefully this makes up for the not nice stuff I said about our bay and its aquatic life last week.

Photo by Joseph Nicosia

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This one, I am told, was on Bedford Avenue. From the photographer:

Those are the seed packets that hang from the branches. Usually they’re straight, but they curve as they dry or ripen I guess.

Photo by Robert Fernandez

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Judging from the photo, it doesn’t seem like such a terrible place to be. Like if you were on a sailboat, or something.

Photo by George Burshteyn

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CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.

Many of you out there will now have this song stuck in your head all day. Go ahead, play it. I dare you.

Photo by Allan Shweky

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Has anyone ever actually eaten a fish caught in the waters of Sheepshead Bay and lived to tell about it? It’s probably not as bad as eating a fish from the Gowanus Canal (can anything even live in that water?), but I can’t imagine it would be much better either.

Photo by Dmitri Kalinin

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They are on the far side of Emmons Avenue, of course. Or at least that’s where this wild thing was hanging out last week.

Photo by Erica Sherman

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You know, like “Bird is the Word?” You people have no idea the far reaches of uncharted brain hemispheres I scour to come up with these headline gems.

Photo by Albert Dashevsky (a.k.a. Albert718)

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OK, maybe it’s just my imagination running away with me again.

Photo by George Burshteyn

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I wanted to use this as a Morning Mug, but I suppose it works as a puzzle too, which is how the photographer actually intended the image to be used in the first place.

As Anne Frank aptly wrote, “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

And, less depressingly, from the photographer himself:

This is a tree, cut down to the stump, bursting back to life. As Jeff Goldblum put it, “Life will, uh, uh, find a way.”

Photo by Lenny Markh.