Bluebells

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Blue is my favorite color and I’ve always loved bluebells. I lived in a largely rural area of the UK when I was a child and loved to walk in the woods and the fields. You would often find huge carpets of bluebells in the woods at this time of year. In my woodland walks here in NY I haven’t come across such large numbers of them, but I have seen isolated groupings (probably blown from a garden somewhere) like this one.

Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.

Geese on a nearby pond

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I was walking the dog by this nearby pond when I spotted two geese. I considered taking a picture, but then thought to myself: “Do I really want to take yet another picture of a couple of geese swimming serenely around on a pond?” My answer was: “No” and I started to walk away. I took a look back and noticed something a bit different about these geese: there was actually a third goose, or to be more precise, a gosling. I have a weakness for small cute furry creatures so I couldn’t resist.

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You’ll notice in this final picture that there are three geese and a gosling. The third goose, the one on the top right, was either trying to getting into the picture (unlikely) or angling for some food (more likely). Whatever it was the other two didn’t much like it and again and again aggressively chased it away, only for it to return.

Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XF 55-200mm f3.5-4.8 R LM OIS

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – The old dutch burial ground

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The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow (Dutch: Oude Nederlandse Kerk van Sleepy Hollow), listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Dutch Reformed Church (Sleepy Hollow), is a 17th-century stone church located on Albany Post Road (U.S. Route 9) in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. It and its three-acre (1.2 ha) churchyard feature prominently in Washington Irving’s 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. The churchyard is often confused with the contiguous but separate Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

It is the second oldest extant church and the 15th oldest extant building in the state of New York, renovated after an 1837 fire. Some of those renovations were reversed 60 years later, and further work was done in 1960. It was listed on the Register in 1966, among the earliest properties so recognized. It had already been designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961. It is still the property of the Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns, which holds summer services there, as well as on special occasions such as Christmas Eve.

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Taken with a Sony A7IV and Tamron Di III VXD A056SF 70-180mm f2.8.