A detail from the "Nine-Gun Battery" at Sandy Hook NJ. These modern day ruins were built in the late 1890's. The nine guns protected New York Harbor.
For a really amazing panorama that shows how big this structure is, see http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/18344
No longer middle aged, and no longer taking pictures every day....but cannot quit yet.
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Middle, middle. Middle-aged, middle America. I just like taking...