Lights Out

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The power was out for several hours yesterday. While there were strong winds I don’t think they were the source of the problem. Coned (for those outside the New York that’s the local electricity provider) trims trees that could possibly fall on their power lines. They were doing this yesterday. Around 5:00pm I heard two very loud bangs. So, I went out to see what was going on. One of the Coned guys looked as if he was in shock. I suspect that something had gone wrong and he had nearly been hit by a falling tree trunk. The power eventually came back on around midnight. The Coned guy was fine; there was no damage to my property. All’s well that ends well.

Taken with a Sony A7IV and Samyang 45mm f1.8

Cat and Mouse

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The internet abounds with images like the one above (my first, and possibly last, AI generated image). However, in reality encounters between cats and mice don’t come out like this. This morning my cat brought in a mouse and I took some pictures of what happened. Our little furry friends are not as cute and cuddly as they appear (as I’m sure most people are already aware).

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Taken with a Sony A7IV and Rokinon/Samyang AF 24-70 f2.8 FE

Scarecrows

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Every year our town park (Law Memorial Park) is filled with scarecrows. I believe (but don’t know for sure) that they’re part of a competition where winners get some kind of prize.

I previous years I’ve taken pictures of all of them, but this year I decided that I would take pictures only of those I found interesting. In the past I’d taken full length shotes. This year I decided on closeups, generally head shots.

So here they are: Briarcliff Manor Hallowe’en scarecrows.

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Taken with a Nikon D200 and 50mm f1.8 D.

Woman in a white car

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Last Saturday I went to visit a friend who had had a recent fall and I wanted to see how she was doing. I walked around the village for a couple of hours taking pictures of all and sundry. I had a little time to kill so I walked down a road which runs parallel to the Pocantico River to see if I could find some pictures there.

As I was taking a picture, I heard a voice saying, “what are you doing?” (or something like that). At first, I wondered if I was in some kind of trouble. Was I somewhere where I should not have been taking pictures, so I walked over to the car to explain what I was doing. Have you ever had the experience of seeing someone you know in a context where you’re not used to seeing them. That’s what happened here, and as I got closer, I realized that I knew the person in the car.

Her name is Allie, and she works in the Village of Briarcliff Manor Recreation Department, which is located right next to the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society where I volunteer. I see her all the time.

Anyway, we had a quick chat, and I took this picture before she went off to “do Hallowe’en things”.

Taken with a Nikon D200 and 50mm f1.8 D.