I came across these two trees while walking along Lake Shore Road. Spectacular colors!
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
Fall Colors
A Hallowe’n Still Life
We went to Four Brothers Restaurant in Mahopac yesterday. It was a lovely day and the restaurant has a great location – right on the lake. The menu is extensive and the portions are huge. I ordered a ‘small’ salad and could only eat half of it.
After the meal we went outside to take a look at the lake. As we were leaving I noticed the group right by the exit.
Taken with an Apple Iphone 5s (the only camera I had with me).
Happy Hallowe’en and Happy Birthday Dad
Today’s Hallowe’en, but when I was growing up in the UK we didn’t celebrate it as much as they do now. Since October 31 was also my father’s birthday we tended to celebrate that instead. Had he lived he would have been 99 years old today.
I came across this group while walking the dog along Oakridge Drive.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
Peekskill Harvest Festival – An interesting looking building
I’ve noticed this building a few times and often wondered why it has this strange, oriental looking appendage.
According to Peekskill’s Downtown Historic Walking Tour it’s the :
Former Kentora Hotel located at 1 North Division Street. The distinctive and purely decorative onion dome of turret attached to this corner building since 1905 is a kind of exclamation point announcing the downtown center. Originally the Empire House Hotel in 1885 (with William Brennan as proprietor) the brick corner building was identified as the Kentora Hotel in 1907. “Kentora” was coined from the owner’s names, Clue and Torpy. Guest rooms were upstairs, and a saloon was downstairs. It was home to the Clinton Drug Store from about 1910 to the 1960s. The street level business has been occupied by Submarine Galley for many years
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
Peekskill Harvest Festival – Peekskill Bazaar and Thrift Shop
This shop was amazing. It seemed to sell everything: plastic religious memorabilia; clothing; paintings; jewelry; belts and belt buckles; electronics etc. You name it – they had it. And everything was packed into an incredibly small space. So small that it was difficult to walk around inside.
Most of the items seemed to be “cheap and nasty” and I couldn’t help but wonder whether anyone actually bought any of it.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.