Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I think it’s fair to say that 2020 was not a good year. It started well enough with the final days of our trip to Switzerland (Geneva) and France (Paris) and then went downhill from there. In February I had some fairly serious surgery, which initially went well but later led to some complications, which…
In the preceding post there are a couple of lists of notables who either attended services, or contributed to the funding of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Briarcliff Manor, NY. However, I deliberately left out one name so I could mention him in this post. As I was leaving the church I noticed this small…
I’d often passed this church on Route 9 in the Scarborough section of Briarcliff Manor. It’s an attractive old church and I thought it might be nice to stop by and take a few pictures, but I never did. Then one day I read somewhere that the church was going to close so I thought…
It was a Saturday and I had intended to go for another walk at Rockwood Hall, but it was teeming with people so I thought I’d try the Rockefeller State Park. It was the same story: the car park was full and the parked cars were backed up all the way down to Route 117…
It’s cold and bleak now in January, 2020 and I’m so badly backlogged with my pictures that, to cheer us up, I’m going to do few posts of primarily colorful fall pictures to cheer me up. These first pictures were taken at the end of October, 2019 during a visit to the nearby Rockefeller Preserve….