Conservatory and pond garden

According to the Stonecrop Gardens website:

Stonecrop Gardens is located in Cold Spring, New York and was originally the home of Anne and Frank Cabot. Stonecrop became a public garden in 1992 under the direction of Caroline Burgess.

At its windswept elevation of 1,100 feet in the Hudson Highlands Stonecrop enjoys a Zone 5 climate. The display gardens cover an area of approximately 12 acres and comprise a diverse collection of gardens and plants including woodland and water gardens, a grass garden, raised alpine stone beds, cliff rock gardens, and an enclosed English-style flower garden. Additional features include a Conservatory, display Alpine House, Pit House with an extensive collection of choice dwarf bulbs, and systematic order beds representing over 50 plant families.

Stonecrop’s plant collections and display gardens not only demonstrate what can be achieved by horticultural enthusiasts, but also serve as an educational resource which, together with its professional staff, constitute the foundation upon which is based a developing School of Practical Horticulture.

Horse pasture

Flower in the Systematic Order beds

View near the horse pasture

Flower in the flower garden – don’t know what kind.

Flower garden

All that remains of the home of Francis Cabot

Water Lillies

According to Wikipedia:

The Danbury Railway Museum (reporting mark DRMX)[3] is housed in the former Union Station on the east end of downtown Danbury, Connecticut, United States. It was established in the mid-1990s following the closure of the station by Metro-North Railroad, and primarily focuses on the history of railroading in southern New England and neighbouring New York. In addition to the former station building, the museum has a collection of heritage railcars in the neighboring railyard it shares with Metro-North.

The station was built in 1903 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in response to local pressure for a new station after the three railroads that served the city were merged into the New Haven. At its peak period 125 trains stopped there in a day. In 1993 that had dwindled to a few commuter trains, and the Connecticut Department of Transportation, which by then owned the neglected building, closed it in favor of a newer station on the other side of the block. Within two years the museum was formed and restored the station to its former appearance.

It is architecturally distinctive, with Colonial Revival touches on a Richardsonian Romanesque structure. Alfred Hitchcock filmed station scenes for Strangers on a Train on its distinctive curved platform. In 1986, prior to the museum’s use of the building, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1] It was joined on the Register in 2005 by the former turntable, the only intact one in the state.

For more information see the official website of the museum

I think that this is probably the saddest picture I’ve ever taken. I still have difficulty looking at it.

Around Easter 2012 I was walking in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.  I think it was the movement of the spinner that caught my attention.  Then I saw the brightly coloured Easter eggs and the happy, smiling Spongebob.  It took a while for it all to sink in.  The inscription on the stone says:  “Our Little Angel.  Stephen Samuel Nunez.  December 4, 2004 – April 27, 2011”.

The Niese’s Farm web site says:

The Niese family has boiled maple sap for seven generations. We are the oldest family maple producers in southern New York, from single buckets of syrup in 1892, to miles of sap lines today, we’ve kept our quality high and service unbeatable.
“Since early childhood I’ve worked the entire maple sap to syrup process with my father and grandfather – Dad still boils at age 80, so we’ve always kept it going strong. Farming is something that’s just in you.”

The Putnam County News also has an article on the farm

We went there for breakfast on father’s day. They also had music in the form of two singers who also played guitar and flute.

Glenn Niese – The Owner.

Tractor outside the store

Bert and Ernie

Wood sculptures

Inside the store

Scarecrow

The sign says it all