These brick pillars stand a few minutes walk away from our house. They form part of a brick wall, which completely enclosed the old Speyer mansion, Waldheim. Waldheim, the 130-acre country estate of New York banker James Speyer. Located in Scarborough, New York, the estate featured sprawling farm lands, a nine-hole golf course, gardens, and a lake. It was purchased in 1946 to be subdivided into residential lots. Our house is on one of these lots and so is inside the wall, portions of which have collapsed over time leaving these pillars to stand alone.

Taken with a Panasonic Lumix GF1, Lumix G Vario 14-42 f3.5-4.6 II