New York

Lit Reeds

2021-12-302022-08-15Sherry Felix10 Comments

While I tidy up my archives I paused to make this image.

Snow a Decade Ago

2021-12-28Sherry Felix7 Comments

I posted this photograph many years ago. This is a new version. It may never snow like this again.

Winter Grasslands

2021-12-232021-12-23Sherry Felix19 Comments

Shawangunk Grasslands NWR in March of 2021. I reworked and enhanced these two photographs. I haven’t been able to get out to shoot more new ones. The background in the bluebird picture is not the original one.

Long Island 2011

2021-12-20Sherry Felix2 Comments

A couple of images from 2011 reprocessed.

Brant (Branta bernicla), Loing Island 12/18/2011

Shinnecock

2021-12-182021-12-17Sherry Felix11 Comments

There is a Native American reservation out at the end of Long Island, New York in Suffolk County. We passed by the controversial billboard tribe put up for profit State Seeks to Stop Work on Second Shinnecock Billboard | The East Hampton Star. We went to Southampton Cemetery to buy grave plots for our green burials. It a good idea to plan ahead. I filled out the book “I’m Dead. So Now What” (catchy tile) so our next of kin or will know what to do when the time comes. Now that is done I can forget about it.

After a lovely seafood lunch at the Canal Cafe (thecanalcafe.com) we went to look for snowy owls. The caretaker, Eric, is a birder too and told us about the owls. I spotted 2 way off in the dunes. There was a women trespassing onto the dunes. Very bad behavior. After that I spotted another one a little closer to us on the crest of a dune along Shore Road.

Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus), Suffolk County, NY 12/16/2021

Civic Virtue

2021-12-172021-12-13Sherry Felix4 Comments

This strange “sculpture is known as an allegorical personification: a story or set of abstract ideas symbolized by the human form. The youthful male figure represents Virtue: honest, incorruptible city government. The writhing feminized sea creatures, caught up in netting, together represent the Vices over which Civic Virtue strives to triumph: treachery and corruption. is now in Greenwood Cemetery.“ It is controversial and sexist. “Controversy erupted as soon as the monument was unveiled. Civic Virtue was viewed as a male stomping upon two women and not as an allegorical personification.” Read all about it here: “Civic Virtue” Historical Marker (hmdb.org)

My opinion on this sort of controversial sculpture is to leave them up and use them as a teaching tool as they did with this one by posting a plaque with the text from the contents of the link I provided above.

Civic Virtue, Green-Wood Cemetery 12/12/2021

Green-Wood and Manhattan Doors

2021-12-162021-12-16Sherry Felix21 Comments

Doors in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, and in Greenwich Manhattan with a couple of lamps thrown in.

For Thursday Doors December 16, 2021.

Green-Wood

2021-12-152021-12-13Sherry Felix11 Comments

More pictures form our excursion to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The last photograph shows three obelisks. The third obelisk in the background is the Freedom Tower in Manhattan.