I took a walk up the river the other day. People who read my posts will know that I live near the Hudson River, so what’s so special about going for a walk up the river. Those who don’t live around here may not know that “up the river” has a particular meaning around here.
It’s come to refer to being sent to prison, as in “They sent him up the river for five years”. This phrase originally referred to Sing-Sing Prison, on the Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City. So used from about 1890 on, it was broadened to apply to any prison by the early 1900s.

Sing Sing (now called the Sing Sing Correctional Facility) is not too far from where I live so on this occasion, I was going to walk to Sing Sing to take some pictures. I’ve lived in this area for around 25 years and I’ve never gotten around to taking pictures of the facility.
It was a bright sunny day and somehow the color pictures didn’t look ominous enough, so I tried to make them look a bit more menacing.

Taken with a Sony RX10 III