These strolls almost always feature scenes from the City of Beacon. This weekend was a rare one spent out of town. Click on the first thumbnail to start the slideshow, then use the arrows.
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- Asphalt, sky, a few trees in late winter dress, a merge sign.
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- The destination was about 80 miles north, in the Catskills.
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- With some mileage in the legs later in the year, this would be a bicycle trip on back roads.
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- Fleeting compositions along the Thruway and NY 32.
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- The remains of a roadside sign.
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- I stayed in a cabin with some family and friends. The logs look made of wax in the pale March sunlight.
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- None of my attempts to capture the dropoff to the creek were very successful.
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- Most of the trees around the cabin were eastern hemlock.
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- The early tanning industry, circa 1800s, relied on hemlock to provide tannin used in turning animal hide into leather.
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- Water was used to extract the tannins. Itinerant workers known as hemlock peelers removed the tree bark.
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- There were many signs of the deer population.
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- This moss appears to have remained green and bright under a snow blanket.
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- Small ferns ready to grow.
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- Once the hemlock were used up, the forest-based tanneries were finished. A more modern, even more toxic, tanning process was developed.
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- Fieldstone walls and the lack of mature trees indicate this land was pasture not long ago.
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