Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow (hudsonvalley.org) in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York is well worth a visit. The docents do an excellent job telling all about the history.
For Dan’s Thursday Doors. Back at OSV – No Facilities is Dan’s door post for today.
The Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow (hudsonvalley.org) was reopened this May after being closed for two years due to storm damage. They did a lovely job. The next post I will show some of the architecture.
A few plants seen on our walk in the park.
We did a short hike to the Glacial Erratic at Rockefeller State Park Preserve (ny.gov) in Pleasantville, New York in Westchester County in the afternoon of Sunday September 15th. The granite rock is tilted 90 degrees from how it was originally metamorphosed deep beneath the Earth’s surface. There are white veins of lower meting po9int quartz that separated out during metamorphosis. 600 million years old. This mass of free-standing gneiss, almost 20 feet high and 65 feet in circumference, is probably the largest ”glacial erratic” to be found anywhere in the county. The glacier that transported the glacial erratic to Rockefeller State Park Preserve was part of the Late Wisconsin glaciation, which occurred approximately 20,000 to 25,000 years ago.
The activates look interesting. Maybe I’ll get a chance to try one or two.
Swan Lake is a lovely lake to walk around.
I felt like showing this one from 2021 again.
I slightly re-edited my Japanese Beetle. Photograph originally created at Ward Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York on July 6, 2013.
Some plants and landscapes and our little group of butterfly hunters.
Second post in this series. We watched the Ebony Jewelwings mate and lay eggs. Some I have never seen like the mole cricket.
