Westchester

Philipsburg Doors

2024-10-172024-10-17Sherry Felix13 Comments

A second vist ito Philpsburg Manor in Westchesgter County, New York with friends.

For Dan’s Thursday Doors: https://nofacilities.com/2024/10/17/misc-pittsburgh/

Untermyer Park & Gardens Plants

2024-10-052024-10-02Sherry Felix4 Comments

A few plants that I tried to ID. These and the images on the previous post were made with my cell phone, A Galaxy S22 Ultra.

Weeping European Beech ‘Pendula’ (Fagus sylvatica), Untermyer Park & Gardens 9/26/2024

Untermyer Park and Gardens

2024-10-042024-10-03Sherry Felix4 Comments

At the very end of September we went to Untermyer Gardens Conservancy with some dear friends from New York now living in Washington State. It is a lovely little place in Yonkers, Westchester County.

Philipsburg Manor Doors

2024-09-262024-09-26Sherry Felix12 Comments

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.

Philipsburg Manor Nature

2024-09-252024-09-24Sherry Felix2 Comments

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.

Two-spotted or Blue-winged Scoliid Wasp (Scolia dubia), Philipsburg Manor 9/15/2024

Rockefeller SP Plants

2024-09-212024-09-19Sherry Felix5 Comments

A few plants seen on our walk in the park.

Rockefeller SP

2024-09-202024-09-19Sherry Felix9 Comments

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 15^th. 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.