A Walk in Sleepy Hollow – Lunch at the Bridge View Tavern

November 13, 2022 by Howard Dale Posted in Buildings/Structures, People Leave a comment

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 around Dobbs Ferry – Waterfront Park

October 20, 2022 by Howard Dale Posted in Landscapes, People Leave a comment

In an earlier post (See: A walk around Dobbs Ferry – A Restaurant by the river) I mentioned that there was a small park next to the river on the other side of the parking lot. This photograph was taken there. It’s simply called “Waterfront Park”.

Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II

A friend and his dog

October 19, 2022 by Howard Dale Posted in Around the Neighborhood, People, Wildlife & Animals Leave a comment

My friend Antonio and his dog Henry during a recent walk.

Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II

Some new frames

September 26, 2022 by Howard Dale Posted in Black & White, Nature, People, Plants Leave a comment

In the preceding post mentioned some problems I had with framed pictures at the Museum of Modern Art.

I recently went with some friends to Ikea and came across some useful and inexpensive frames. So I bought two in different styles to see how they would look with my pictures in them.

I’ll probably print some more and change the cactus picture. I’ll keep the other one because 1) it’s one of very few pictures I have of my father (seen here in front of our house with our dog, Peg) and 2) It may well be the first picture I ever took – with an old Kodak Brownie Vecta box camera. I was about 11 at the time. If it’s not the very first it’s certainly from the first roll.

The picture of the cactus was taken April 16, 2016 at the New York Botanical Garden with a Sony A500. I don’t remember the lens and Lightroom saw fit not to record the lens data.

A memorial garden

August 24, 2022 by Howard Dale Posted in Flowers, Gardens, Nature, People Leave a comment

From 2012 to late 2021 we owned a house on Roaring Brook Lake in Putnam County, NY. My late wife was a very active member of the community’s garden club (she loved gardening). The garden club maintains a small garden by the entrance to the lake and a few years ago they decided to place memorial stones for lake residents who had recently passed away. One of those was my late wife, Eirah who now has a stone there inscribed with her name.

One of my daughters recently came to visit with her family and she wanted to take her two daughters to see the garden. So off we went. Above: Colorful sign by the garden at the entrance to the community.

Echinaceas taken from our house in Briarcliff Manor years ago and donated to the garden club. They seem to be doing well. Eirah is no longer with us but the flowers remain.