Seen in June 2022 during a walk in a nearby wooded area
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XF 55-200mm f3.5-4.8 R LM OIS
Wildflowers
Cormorants
In Mid-October 2022 I went on a boat ride on the Hudson River. During this ride I spotted these cormorants. Initially they were just sitting calmly on the buoy, but as the boat got closer they took off.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Tamron Di III VXD A056SF 70-180mm f2.8.
Spectacular Fall Colors
Seen in mid-October 2023 by Rondout Creek in Kingston, NY.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Rokinon/Samyang AF 24-70 f2.8 FE
Some Oldies – New Delhi, India, 2006
Taken in June 2006 during a trip to India. Above: Taj Mahal (as if you needed to be told).
Jama Masjid Mosque
Figures under the arches (don’t recall where this was).
The Red Fort.
Humayun’s Tomb, New Delhi. Maybe not as spectacular as the Taj Mahal it has the great advantage of being in New Delhi and is, therefore, much easier to get to.
Taken with a Canon Powershot S50.
A gift
The Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society, where I’m currently volunteering, recently received this wonderful gift of a silver platter from Jeff and Jackie Haught of Santa Fe New Mexico.
The inscription reads:
“Henry Smith Tournament
Low Net
Winner
Leon Svirsky
1963”
The small shield above the inscription bears the words “Briar Hall”.
“Henry Law established the Briar Hills Country Club on the site of the old Briarcliff Golf Club in 1921. A clubhouse was built and an eighteen-hole golf links of 6,366 yards was designed by golf architect Devereux Emmet. The 150-acre property was bounded roughly by Dalmeny, Poplar and Pine roads, with a strip south of Pine extending behind Tuttle Road to Long Hill Road East. The grounds included the Christie, later Melady, property and the large white house named Elderslie, which for a time served as the clubhouse. Two generations of the Law family, Henry and, after him, Theodore Gilman Law, directed the club until some years after World War II, when it was sold and became Briar Hall Country Club (1922-1993). “Besides…golf, tennis, riding, skiing, tobogganing, skating and coasting, the Club…[offered] every facility for indoor entertainment””. (From “The Changing Landscape – A History of Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough” by Mary Cheever.
Trophy being presented at the Briar Hall club. Date unknown, but possibly in the 1940s.
Elderslie. The house still exists at 233 Pine Road
Car in front of Elderslie
Picture of the Platter taken with a Sony A7IV and Samyang 45mm f1.8. Other pictures from the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society archive.