Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I’ve posted about this garden before: See “A Wild and Crazy Garden”. I passed it again the other day and once again was blown away. I really think we should get rid of our lawns, with all of the maintenance, the ecxessive watering, noisy leaf blowers, mowers, trimmers etc. and just replace them with masses of beautiful colorful flowers.
Taken with a Apple Iphone SE II.
Costumed interpreters re-enact life in pre-Revolutionary times, doing chores, milking the cows, and grinding grain in the grist mill. They also act as guides.
The current tour was in the manor house, and they were waiting for them to emerge. This gave me a chance to go over and chat with them. I work with Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society, which is only 6 miles away from the manor. They had an extensive knowledge of local history (one of them was a retired history teacher) so we didn’t have difficulties finding things to discuss.
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
Philipse’s trading center has been restored to its appearance in 1750 when, in addition to the two dozen African slave it was home to several hundred tenant farmers. Their homes looked something like this. I can’t really say more because it wasn’t possible to see the interior. So, you see what I saw.
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
In colonial America, it was common for enslaved men and women in rural areas to keep a provisioning garden to grow vegetables they most wanted to eat.
At Philipsburg Manor, which interprets an 18th-century provisioning plantation operated by 23 enslaved Africans, the slaves’ garden is full of plants African gardeners would have preferred – vegetables like black-eyed peas and sweet potatoes – as well as herbs.
Africans had an intimate knowledge of plants and other natural materials that they used to cure all sorts of ailments. So the herbs in a garden like this one served as an apothecary as well as a spice rack. (A Colonial Drugstore: Philipsburg Manor’s Herb Garden)
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
The title says it all: A Dutch style barn with lots of wood and straw, and some interesting objects – a cart; a yoke; a drying rack; some barrels; a milk churn; a number of wooden rakes; a plough etc. More or less what you’d expect to find.
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II