“To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.”
– Andri Cauldwell
Here are some black and white photos taken as dusk approached at Trinity Pawling School. As always, I was waiting for my daughters hockey practice to finish.
“The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.”
-Jeff Hendrickson
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
-Elliott Erwitt
My daughter had another photo project that I found interesting and though I would participate in. For this project she had to find something in the “unseen” side of Mahopac, New York. This house is along a pretty well traveled road and even though we go by it just about every day, you never really see it.
“Photography helps people to see.”
-Berenice Abbott
A change from the color of the woods.
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”
David Alan Harvey
“Photography is the beauty of life captured.”
Tara Chisolm
Another Ossining sunrise taken with my crappy cell and a little added enhancement!
“When words escape, flowers speak.”
-Bruce W. Currie
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
-Luther Burbank
These flowers were also at the Elephant Trunk Flea Market. I believed that they needed a space all of their own instead of being meixed in with everything else that was for sale.
“Hiking is the answer. Who cares what the question is.
-Anonymous
“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”
-Leon Levinstein
After resting my ankle for three days, I decided it was time to get back out into the woods. The swelling was gone and it felt pretty good so I figured at the very least I would lace the boots up and if it hurt too much I could just turn around and end today’s hike early.
As you pull into the parking lot, this is your view.
Lake Skannatati
As is the norm with most of my summer hikes, I got the parking area pretty early today. Since it is the day before Independence Day, I thought that even at this hour more people would have been out. But at 6:10 am, the only other person I saw was this guy fishing!
To the right of the lake you immediately see a kiosk and two trails. This will be the start as well as the end of the hike. The blue blazed Long Path is on your left and the red triangle A-SB (Arden Surebridge) will be on your right.
The beginning and end of the hike.
Starting on the Long Path, you will wind your way around the lake, mainly staying on even ground. As you move deeper into the woods, you begin a series of small ups and downs on the trail until you intersect with the yellow blazed Dunning Trail. If you are looking for an even shorter hike than this one, you could make the right onto this trail and it will eventually intersect with the A-SB trail. Instead, take a left and after a few minutes the Long Path will turn off to the right while Dunning Trail stays on the left.
The Long Path intersects with the Dunning Trail
Staying on the LP, you begin a steady climb until you reach the A-SB trail.
The blue blazed Long Path
Red Triangle A-SB Trail
Heading down the A-SB Trail back towards the lake.
Once you turn onto the A-SB trail, it’s mainly all downhill until you get to the lake.
Overall I enjoyed this hike. The difficulty rating of moderate that I have seen in its description seems appropriate. The only negative thing that I can see with it, and this has been an issue with the Long Path in the past is the way that they blaze the trail. While I was on the LP today I spent way to much today not being able to find blazes and I had to reroute myself several times. They could definitely put some of the blazes closer together and at critical junctures make it easier to follow them.
Summer 2017 Mileage:
7/3/17-4.3-16.02
***I received several messages yesterday saying that the pictures associated with this post could not be viewed. I am reposting the hike from yesterday and hopefully they will come out. If they don’t, please leave me a reply. Thanks to everyone who let me know yesterday!
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
-Henry Rollins
We are enjoying another beautiful day here in the Hudson Valley. It appears as though winter has left us and spring will take hold until summer crashes down upon us (in a couple of days!) So, a great day means a great hike. Today, my daughter and I went into Bear Mt. and did a variation on one of the hikes in Circuit Hikes In Harriman. I got to spend some quality time with my daughter and got some fantastic pictures. Spring continues to be an awesome time to hike and get recharged for summer.
“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
-Robert Frank
“To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.”
-Andri Cauldwell
“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.”
-Elliot Erwitt
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