Came across this on the Hudson River waterfront in Cold Spring.
Pile of Wood on Hudson
Tree overhanging Teatown Lake
Teatown Lake Reservation is one of my favorite places: to walk the dog; hike around myself and just sit and watch the world go by. It’s quite large: 1,000 acres including the 41-acre Teatown Lake, 7-acre Shadow Lake and 9-acre Vernay Lake, streams, waterfalls, hardwood swamps, mixed forests, meadowns, hemlock forests and laurel groves. There are a number of trails so you don’t have to repeat yourself too much. One of the easier walks is around the lake. It’s flat and takes between 45 and one hour depending on how fast you walk. It was on one of the walks around the lake that I came across this tree overhanging the lake itself.
Taken October, 2011 with a Panasonic ZS-7
Winding Path – Rockwood Hall
The old William Rockefeller estate, Rockwood Hall is long gone. Only the foundations and a lot of spectacular trees remain. With its impressive views of the Hudson it’s a great place for walking the dog. This winding path near the foundation ruins caught my eye.
Taken with a Sony NEX 5N and an Industar 61 lens
Geneva, Switzerland
Lake Geneva from Quai du Mont-Blanc with the Jet d’eau in the background.
We lived in (or right next to) Geneva for eight years and yet I seem to have very few pictures from that time. I suppose there are a couple of reasons for this. First I was going through one of my periodic “soured with photography phases” – This was a particularly long one. Second, and probably more significantly we lived there in the pre-digital age. So I actually might have more pictures, but I’d have to go through boxes of old negatives to try to find them. I might do this, but I suspect I would still find very few.
Here are a few though. They were taken later. My younger daughter still lives in Geneva and we still visit from time to time – although not very much in recent years. Hopefully we’ll get there again soon. I have a yen to go up into the mountains.
Fountain near the Rue des Alpes
Statue near the Jardin Botanique – right next to where I used to work.
l’Auberge du Lion d’Or in Cologny – Michelin starred restaurant just down the road from where we lived.
Runner in the Place des Nations with the Broken Chair and the Palais des Nations in the background.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Old Dutch Church and Burial Ground.
In Winter this is one of the few locations that I can reliably expect to be cleared of snow. So it’s a place of last resort for walking the dog when it’s cold and there’s snow on the ground. It’s also a large and very interesting cemetery with lots of celebrity graves, picturesque statuary, flowering trees etc. It’s a very tranquil and peaceful area to walk around in, which I guess is what you would expect.
John Archbold Mausoleum
Door Detail
Edwin Lister Grave. Born: Sep. 10, 1829, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Died: May 18, 1898, Newark, NJ. President of Agricultural Chemical Works, and Assemblyman in New Jersey.
Spring Blossoms
