Taken one evening on the waterfront in Ossining, NY.
Woman on a Jetty
RIP Eve Borja
Our family has recently been affected by tragedy. My wife’s niece Eve (seen above on the left with my wife and Eve’s son, now 11) passed away unexpectedly and rather mysteriously at her son’s baseball game. It seems that she suffered a severe allergic reaction to something, but nobody knows what. This led to heart and respiratory failure, which caused a lack of oxygen to the brain and massive brain damage. She passed away today after being removed from the ventilator. She was only in her mid 40s.
She was one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. She had a lovely smile and was always eager to help others. She’s one of the few people I’ve met who seemed to be genuinely good. She was particularly close to our two girls having grown up in same building. Needless to say they, like us, are devastated.
I believe some ancient greek said “Those whom the gods love die young”, which seems entirely correct in this case.
RIP Eve.
Garrison Little Red Chapel Revisited
I already posted about Garrison’s Little Red Chapel (seen here from the rear) in 2014 (pictures taken in February 2012). At that time the Chapel (which had most recently been an antiques store) was vacant and had a ‘For Sale’ sign on it.
I went by the other day and noticed that it’s gone! The site has been cleared and there seems to be some kind of monument in the middle. I didn’t have time to stop to see if anything was written on it. I have no idea if the building has been destroyed or whether it was moved somewhere else. I hope the latter, but fear the former.
Door and Vines
I have a weakness for vines growing on a building so when my wife recently dropped me right next to this one in Cold Spring I headed straight for it. Add the slightly weathered wood, the pastel yellow of the paint and the completely “out of kilter” doorstep (or maybe doorslab would be a more appropriate description) and what more could you want.
The funny thing is that the light fixture (or whatever it is) above the door is almost the same size, color and shape as the edit pins (e.g. for local adjustments) in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which I use for post-processing. Thinking it was some kind of local adjustment that I’d added I tried to click on it edit, only to find that it wouldn’t respond. Took me a little while to figure out why. I guess my brain wasn’t working too well that day.
Anyone need a hand?
Part of a statue seen in a nearby park.