Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
Rockwood Hall is close to the house in Briarcliff Manor. It’s a very pleasant walk along the Hudson River with some lovely old trees and great views. I’ve posted about it many times so I won’t say much about it in this post. Suffice it to say that it was the former home of William…
“Rockwood Hall was a Gilded Age mansion in Mount Pleasant, New York, on the Hudson River. It was best-known as the home of William Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller, both co-founders of the Standard Oil Company. Other owners of the house or property included Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, William Henry Aspinwall, and Lloyd Aspinwall. The…
I posted a similar shot back in September 2014 (See: A Walk to Rockwood Hall). If you look look at it you’ll see that something is different. Specifically it’s the bridge. In the first picture you’re seeing the Tappan Zee Bridge, in the second its replacement the Mario Cuomo Bridge. The name is, however, somewhat…
I’ve been walking around Rockwood Hall since we moved to this area in 1998. Early on I spotted this magnificent Sycamore tree. Its ‘whiteness’ makes it stand out from everything around it. Over the years I’ve taken many pictures of it (I’ve even posted some of them), but somehow have never been satisfied with the…
According to my research it’s a Sycamore. It’s much lighter than any of the trees around it and the bark is very smooth and has interesting patterns. It’s also unusually symmetrical. I’ve always thought there was something different about this tree, but didn’t know exactly what it was. I recently read that the main trunk…