As it passes by the library building where I volunteer at the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society.

The Pocantico River is a nine-mile-long (14 km) tributary of the Hudson River in western central Westchester County, New York, United States. It rises from Echo Lake, in the town of New Castle south of the hamlet of Millwood and flows generally southwest past Briarcliff Manor to its outlet at Sleepy Hollow. Portions of the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining are within its 16-square-mile (41 km2) watershed.

Writer Washington Irving, who lived in the area for most of his life, was inspired by the undeveloped area above the river’s mouth to write his classic “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. Later in the 19th century much of the land was purchased by the Rockefeller family as part of their Kykuit estate; today much of that land has become Rockefeller State Park Preserve. A former reservoir used by the city of New Rochelle has likewise been converted into county-run Pocantico Lake Park. While the river runs predominantly through those parks and suburban land, it is still one of the most polluted tributaries of the Hudson. (Wikipedia)

As you can see it’s hardly a roaring torrent at this part of its course. Not even what you’d call a river in fact? It does get a bit more interesting in other parts e.g. see picture below of the so-called Pocantico Falls in Rockefeller State Park Preserve. (picture taken with an Olympus OM-D EM-10 and Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-42 f3.5-4.6 II in January, 2021

I liked the contrast between the bare, dead tree and the lush, green foliage around it.

Taken with a Sony DSC-H50