An old mill?

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We frequent a Filipino store/restaurant (Pinoy Asian Foods Chibugan) in Pougheepsie for supplies and the occasional lunch. Nearby there are some old buildings. We’ve passed them many times, but I’ve never stopped by for a closer look. This time while my wife did her shopping and had lunch I took the dog for a walk over to them.

There are three clusters of buildings in close proximity: what appears to be a water mill; a very large agricultural looking building; a small brick building with ornate windows.

This post covers the water mill. It stands next to a pond, but the wheel seems to be too high up from the water for it ever to be truly water driven. Also there seems to be no water course to drive the wheel. So I imagine it was purely decorative. There’s an electricity meter on the building so possibly the water was pumped up and over the wheel. Maybe the wheel itself turned as a result of the electrical power. There’s certainly a story here, but so far I’ve been able to find out what it is. Curiously there’s a brown ‘Dutchess County Historical Site’ marker nearby, but once again I’ve been unable to discover to what it refers.

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Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.

Statue in our garden

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Around the time I took this the weather was bad and I wasn’t getting out much. So thinking of Josef Sudek I took a few pictures in the garden.

Actually it’s not really a statue. It’s a fountain, but the water part of it has not worked for some time. I think it’s just that the pump needs to be replaced, but I never seem to get around to it.

Taken with a Sony A500 and Tamron A18 AF 18-250mm f3.5-6.3.

Sea of grass

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Taken at Rockwood Hall. It was late in the afternoon and the light was golden as the sun went down over the Palisades. I tried a low angle to emphasize their mass. The first couple of shots I took excluded the trees in the background, but I decided that a few of them gave more of a sense of distance.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.