Taken through the window of a moving bus. Not the best pictures I’ve ever taken, but the views and the colors were spectacular.
A couple of Columbia County Landscapes
A Walk at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve
The Rockefeller State Park Preserve is a state park in Mount Pleasant, New York in the eastern foothills of the Hudson River in Westchester County. Common activities in the park include horse-riding, walking, jogging, running, bird-watching, and fishing. The park has a rich history and was donated to the State of New York over time by the Rockefeller family beginning in 1983. A section of the park, the Rockwood Hall property, fronts the Hudson River. It was formerly the private residence of William Rockefeller, and began use as a New York state park in the early 1970s. In 2018, the park was added to New York’s State Register of Historic Places.
I’ve posted about it many times. See here.
Above: View of the Pocantico River
Pocantico River again
Tumbling Water
My friend Antonio and his dog, Henry who clearly doesn’t want his picture to be taken.
One of the pictureque stone bridges
View from the bridge
Another stone bridge
Runners practicing for an upcoming race at the preserve
Waving ferns
Third stone bridge. It’s the most spectacular of the bridges. It has three arches, but is almost impossible to photography because of all of the trees and bushes around it.
Antonio and Henry on one of the stone bridges
The Pocantico river passes under the Old Croton Aqueduct.
Some more fall foliage
Spectacular red tree
Pocantico Falls
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Rokinon/Samyang AF 24-70 f2.8 FE
A Walk in Sleepy Hollow – Lunch at the Bridge View Tavern
After all of the walking documented in the previous few posts I was tired and hungry so I stopped at the Bridge View Tavern for something to eat.
While there is still a view of the bridge it’s gradually narrowing as more and more buildings (condos, co-ops, apartments – I don’t know what they are) rise up by the waterfront in Sleepy Hollow. Maybe eventually the view of the bridge from the tavern will disappear entirely.
My plan had been to walk for a while, get something to eat and then later attend a chamber music concert at the Sleepy Hollow High School. After a fairly lengthy walk, a large meal… and my fatal mistake…a pint of brown ale with lunch I lost the will to go to the concert and returned home.
For more information on the Bridge View Tavern see here:
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XF 35mm f1.4 R
A Walk in Sleepy Hollow – A Portion of the River Walk
Westchester County, in partnership with its 11 riverfront cities and villages, has made great strides toward creating a continuous trail along its 51.5-mile Hudson-River shoreline. Currently, more than 32 miles of RiverWalk provide recreation for pedestrians and bicyclists, reduce dependency on car trips, and increase visitor appeal — all while benefiting public health, fostering a sense of community, improving residential property values, and invigorating commercial areas. Several portions of the RiverWalk pass through parks created or enhanced by Scenic Hudson.
Above The Wishing Wall.
A 520-foot community-painted mural brought local residents together during a trying time, thanks largely to the efforts of two area women.
Sleepy Hollow’s Kersten Harries knew that a lengthy concrete wall, left after a GM factory closed shop decades ago, could be transformed into something beautiful. As early as 2019, she had been reaching out to owners of the site, Edge-on-Hudson, about turning the space into a temporary art installation. It wasn’t until the summer of 2020 when her dream became a reality, working with Sleepy Hollow community liaison Diane Loja, Edge-on-Hudson, and the Village Board of Trustees to form The Wishing Wall, a mural adjacent to the Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse, painted by both community members and area artists.
So how did Harries and Loja, project managers for The Wishing Wall, find enough artists to cover a concrete canvas roughly one-tenth of a mile long? “A Call for Artists was used to select a core team of designers [Erin Carney, Tim Grajek, Katie Reidy], who utilized the community’s ideas to create a cohesive design concept that was laid out along the entire wall, which also included locating spots where selected volunteer artists and groups could directly paint their submitted ideas,” explains Harries. “An additional eight artists and community art educators were part of the core team responsible for executing the painting of the mural, with the help of many volunteers who signed up.”Considering that the wall is slated to come down in 2022, the original Riverwalk Community Mural planning committee has both “expanded and shifted focus to creating other community art opportunities elsewhere locally, with the hope to utilize the energy and enthusiasm generated by The Wishing Wall and help inspire new public art and creative placemaking projects in Sleepy Hollow’s downtown,” notes Harries. Additionally, a Wishing Wall photo contest is underway, with submissions due September 6, as well as an attendant online gallery of submissions and an upcoming exhibition in Sleepy Hollow storefronts.
“For the 260-plus community members directly involved in the project and the many more who watched it be created or have visited since, The Wishing Wall provided a much-needed, positive experience of hope during a particularly challenging year,” reflects Harries. “The mural allowed an opportunity to reconnect with others and witness what we’re able to accomplish when we work together.”” (From The Wishing Wall Colors the Sleepy Hollow Community by Paul Adler. In Westchester Magazine, August 16, 2021
View of the new Tappan Zee Bridge (That’s the old name. I can’t make myself refer to it by its new name: Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. I have nothing against the late former governor. I just prefer the old name) from the Riverwalk.
A Cairn. These are somewhat controversial. See here for an explanation.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XF 35mm f1.4 R
A Walk in Sleepy Hollow – Kingsland Point Park
My walk along the Hudson took me through Kingsland Point Park. Kingsland Point Park is an 18-acre park located on the eastern shore of the Hudson River at the mouth of the Pocantico River in the Village of Sleepy Hollow. With spectacular overlook areas and views of the historic Tarrytown Lighthouse, Kingsland Point Park was one of the first parks developed by the Westchester County Parks Commission.
The park, which was built in 1926, offers picnic areas, ballfields, fishing and playgrounds.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XF 35mm f1.4 R