Tree Roots

Roaring Brook Lane is a couple of minutes away from the house. A dirt track goes down the left side of a stream (Roaring Brook?), over a small wooden bridge and ends up at a wooden dock. The Boy Scouts have done a great job renovating the path, building a new bridge and adding a seating area with picnic table. I usually just walk down to the dock and back and have never explored the right side of the stream so I decided to take a look. There are lots of interesting tree roots. They roots were in shade and were pretty much monochromatic so I thought black and white would work well. I love the shapes and the textures.

Unknown object in Pocantico Lake

Unknown to me at least – I have no idea what it is. The shell is broken on the other side and the interior is full of plastic pipes. The exterior is coated with dried mud. We’ve had little rain of late and it seems to me that the lake is much lower than usual. I’m guessing that this whole area is usually covered in water and I imagine that this is normally submerged.

Boat in the Mist

I woke up early yesterday to a mist covered lake. I was sitting drinking coffee when a paddle boat came drifting out of the mist – nobody on board. I guess it had become detached from its mooring. So I grabbed a couple of cameras (it’s easier than changing lenses) and went down to the dock. The sun was just coming up and the light was changing very quickly. To my horror one of the cameras had no battery (it was charging) and the other one had no memory card (I’d taken it out for some reason). So a quick dash back to the house to get the missing battery. I took a few pictures and a little while later started to edit them.

To my surprise I came across the picture below. I hadn’t even seen the heron fly by. It’s not much of a picture technically: too much noise; blurry. Maybe I should just make it even more blurry – to make it seem like I meant it to be like that: “Yes, I was going for the impressionist/pointillist look here”. Maybe not.

Old Waterworks at Pocantico Lake

Satellite Building

Taken at the old water works/pump house on Pocantico Lake (near the Rockefeller Trails). I’ve been here a couple of times and it was a bit dilapidated with ivy growing, windows broken, and locked doors hanging off their hinges. Now the area around it has been much improved: a new access road has been put in and grass and other undergrowth has been cut back and tidied up. But the building has gotten much worse: the doors have now fallen off completely and the inside is accessible; portions of the roof have caved in and the ivy now almost completely covers the building.

Collapsed Roof

Interior

The Red Dress. In one of the rooms I came across this red dress amongst the crumbling masonary and rusty machinery. It almost looks posed.

Overgrown Main Building