Trees at sunset, Rockwood Hall.
Taken with a Sony Nex 5N and 50mm Industar 61 f2.8.
Rockwood Hall
Sunday Morning Walk Home from The Patio – Trump National Golf Club
The club had its origins around 1895, with Briarcliff founder Walter W. Law‘s private nine-hole course on his estate, which became available to Briarcliff Lodge guests, and was then known as the Briarcliff Golf Club. In 1922, Devereux Emmet designed a course across the street with eighteen holes, and thus Briarcliff Country Club was founded that year. The name was changed in 1927 to avoid confusion, to Briar Hills Country Club. Briar Hills opened in May 1929 with a new clubhouse; construction began in May 1928 and utilized local stones for the building’s exterior. The interior was noted for its design and spaciousness. In 1936, A. W. Tillinghast redesigned the course. In 1948, Henry Law’s son Theodore sold the club to local businessmen who renamed it Briar Hall Golf and Country Club. In 1980, ownership of the club changed hands again.
Briar Hall had been taken over by the Marine Midland Bank, which then sold the property to Donald Trump. Trump bought Briar Hall Country Club for $7.5 million in the foreclosure in December 1996 and ran the club until 1999, until he closed the property to begin its redevelopment.
The Trump National Golf Club’s first nine holes opened on April 15, 2002, followed by the next nine on June 29, 2002.
Taken with a Sony RX100 III
Sunday Morning Walk Home from The Patio – The Law Park Pond
In spring it’s full of large frogs, which produce large numbers of tadpoles which in turn attract water birds such as cormorants, egrets and herons like the green heron below (taken at the Law Park Pond, but not during the current walk)
Taken with a Sony RX100 III
Sunday Morning Walk Home from The Patio – Along a Trail
Until recently this was a dirt track. It was covered in rocks, roots and if it rained it became rather muddy. The North County Trailway, which runs along the path of the New York and Putnam Railroad (the “Old Put”) passes close by and this short trail effectively connects the Trailway with the Village.
I have no idea what this stuff is. I imagine it’s covering dead trees (I guess that if they weren’t dead before they are now). Looks somewhat menacing.
This is what’s laughingly called the Pocantico River. To be fair it’s very narrow here. But is does get larger and more active later in its course, as it runs through the Rockefeller State Park Preserve and makes its way to the River Hudson.
Taken with a Sony RX100 III
A Hudson View
This was taken in Ossining, NY right by the Sing Sing Correctional Facility (See: Going Up the River).
As you can see the Correctional Facility has some great views of the Hudson River. I’m frankly amazed that the facility has lasted as long as it has. I would have thought that it would have been relocated long ago to somewhere less scenic so that upscale, and very expensive condominiums (condominia?) could be built it its place.
Taken with a Sony RX10 III