Reds

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Ribbon in the snow

We’ve been renovating our house and one of the areas affected was the basement. In the new scheme some of the walls are red. One day while walking our dog Jackson it occurred to me that I might need some pictures with read accents to go on the basement walls. So out of curiosity I started looking for red things. I was surprised how many I found during a short walk.

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Birdhouse

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Marker on a telephone pole

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Rowboats at Moon Beach

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Christmas tree light

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Rose

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Mailbox

New York Public Library

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I went into the city one day to meet up with some friends from Canada. They have two children and they were going to see a show and some the the NYC sights. One of the places on the list was the main New York Public Library at 42nd and 5th. So I walked over there with them. I’d been to the library many times and didn’t want to walk around with them so I waited in the entrance until they were finished. While I was there I took a few pictures.

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Around the lake – some black and whites

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As is often the case I took these while walking the dog one day. I didn’t have too many winter pictures so I thought I’d take a few before all of the snow and ice disappeared. The first one is of ‘Children’s Beach’, one of several beaches around the lake. In summer it’s often full of people swimming, boating etc. Kind of desolate in winter though. I liked the boat in the foreground and the tracks across the icy snow.

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In and around Carmel, NY

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Wikipedia has this to say about Carmel:

Carmel is a town in Putnam County, New York, USA. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 34,305.
The town of Carmel is on the south border of Putnam County. There are no incorporated villages in the town, although the hamlets of Carmel and Mahopac each have populations sizable enough to be thought of as villages…The town was settled around 1740 by George Hughson.

The picture above is of the Sybil Luddington Statue. I had never heard of her, but apparently she’s Putnam County’s Paul Revere. On April 26, 1777 the British were burning Danbury, Connecticut. Sybil, aged 16, rode all night through Putnam County warning of the imminent arrival of the British. She’s buried in Maple Avenue Cemetery, Patterson, NY.
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