Along the Cornish Estate Trail – Northgate, The Main House

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Here I am at Northgate again. I was actually trying to find the ruins of the old dairy farm. I kept on walking upwards towards where I felt they should be, but didn’t see anything. Eventually as I got close to the top of Mount Taurus I bumped into a couple coming in the other direction. I asked them if they’d seen any ruins and they told me they hadn’t. So back I went. Somehow I’d missed them. After I got home I did some more research and I now think I know where the old dairy farm is. Now all I need is some cooler weather (it’s been in the high 90F-100F for the past week) to try again.

Although I’ve taken pictures of the main house before (See: Northgate Revisited and Former Stern/Cornish Mansion: Northgate) I concluded that a few more wouldn’t hurt. The ruins really are quite spectacular.

The Putnam Valley Historical Society is organizing a presentation on “Northgate/Old Cornish Estate” on Saturday, 14 July 2018.

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Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.

New Portfolio – Abstract

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We recently had a visit from one of my first cousins. I haven’t been good at staying in touch with my relatives in the UK and have lost touch with most of them. However, another cousin (sister to the one who came to visit) found me on Facebook and we exchanged a few messages. It turns out that my cousin Cliff has a son who lives on Long Island and that he, Cliff, would be visiting in June of this year. So we decided to get together. I think the last time I saw him (and then only briefly) was at my father’s funeral – 25 years ago. It’s probably closer to 40 years since we had any regular interaction.

We invited them (Cliff, his wife, his wife’s sister and his son) to come to the Lake House for lunch.

In conversation I discovered that Cliff’s wife also likes to take pictures and she’s particularly interested in more abstract compositions. I knew that I had a number like that and decided to single them out so that I could share them with her. Since I was doing this it seemed reasonable to create another portfolio (I hadn’t done one for a while) to contain them. I’ve called it “Abstract“.