Hello and Welcome

Greetings

Welcome to my experiment. It's been a long time coming. Since the 20s, actually. The 1620s.

Yes, I have been lingering around in my woods for a long time, watching the comings and goings of everyone else. So long, in fact, that I sometimes feel I have become part of the landscape around me. I breathe with it, sleep with it, and hurt with it.

As you could imagine I have seen quite a bit, and I'm sure you have questions. That's why I've decided to hire an editor [That's me - Ed.] to help me get my stories recorded here. Some involve places you will surely recognize. Others, perhaps not.

One thing that each entry will have in common is that after reading my meanderings, you will never quite look at these places in the same way again. Or at a bare minimum you will learn something new. Maybe just laugh a little bit. I haven't quite figured out why I'm doing this yet. Hopefully it will come to me soon. I wouldn't want to waste your time, especially after you have been kind enough to visit with me.

So that's my basic plan. I will post a couple of photos per week here of my vast Hudson Valley home and tell a good tale with each one. And I can guarantee that each story is true because, after all, I was there. For all of them.

Welcome and please, stay a while.