My wife around 1980

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Wasn’t she gorgeous. She still is!

In addition to the constant snow it’s also gotten extremely cold. I also recently fell on the ice and hurt my back so I’m disinclined to go out at all at the moment. So instead I’ve turned to one of my outstanding projects: to scan my old negatives and slides. This one is from a Kodak Ektachrome slide. The camera would have been either a Minolta Hi-Matic 7sII or a Canon AE-1. I don’t remember which. I recall that I was experimenting with soft focus at the time and I believe that this was taken with a black nylon stocking over the lens.

Snow Around the Lake

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Taken while walking the dog around the lake (about a 90 minute walk). Inevitably there was snow everywhere.

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Two bridges. In a small park near to the entrance to the lake. My wife posted this one to facebook and one of her friends commented: ” …it looks like it’s taken from the Chronicles of Narnia”. Frankly I don’t see it myself.

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Paul’s deer. Our friend Paul is a successful actor – appearing in a number of well know TV series. On his property he has a couple of wicker deer.

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Fence. Nice rustic fence in the snow.

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I wonder why they closed the beach?

Snowy Bench

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We’ve been getting a lot of snow of late. Averaging around three snow falls every week, the snow on the ground has now accumulated to about two feet or so. So it’s hard to take pictures outside without getting snow. It’s getting a bit tiresome. Here’s some snow on one of our patio benches. I liked the pattern of the snow on the wooden slats of the bench; the diagonal lines; and the contrast between the light and dark areas.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

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Mausoleums.

I used to go to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery a lot – see posts below:

Sculpture in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Stained glass at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Even though it’s very close to our house in Briarcliff Manor (maybe about ten minutes away) I haven’t been lately. It’s a great place in winter when options for dog walking are few. We probably have about a foot of snow on the ground at the moment so our usual trails are somewhat hard to walk on. The paths/roadways are usually cleared at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery though. Cars are few and far between and this being a cemetery, when there are cars they are driven slowly. Today was very cold and windy but it was also sunny with cloudless blue skys. The cold doesn’t bother me much and it certainly didn’t seem to bother Harley. He loves to run on the snow. Cairn terriers originated in Scotland where I imagine there is quite a bit of snow in winter so maybe it’s in their genetic makeup to run in the snow (in the same way that terriers seem to know that they were bred to kill rats). We were walking around mid-day while waiting for Eirah to finish her dance class – clearly not the best time for taking pictures. Had a great time walking around in this historic cemetery though. As the Wikipedia article says:

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is set in the adjacent Old Dutch Burying Ground. Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery, it posthumously honored Irving’s request that it change its name to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

For fans of the TV series don’t come to Sleepy Hollow expecting to see something familiar. Apart from some aerial shots the series was mostly filmed in North Carolina.

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Lister Statue.

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Washington Irving‘s Grave in the Irving family plot. Washington Irving was, of course, the author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle” as well as many other literary works.

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Canon trained on Tarrytown in the background. Near the Battle Monument honoring the Revolutionary soldiers who lived in or near Tarrytown. It sits where a cannon sat during the war, guarding the Pocantico River.

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Statues at the Delavan Memorial.

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The Old Dutch Church.