HUDSON VALLEY AUTUMN

YOUR VISIT WAS MOST APPRECIATED.
THANK YOU AND PLEASE COME BACK SOON.
HAVE A DELIGHTFUL AUTUMN.


---TROY---


NORTHBOUND ON U.S. ROUTE 9, HYDE PARK (NY)


ABOUT TO PASS THE VANDERBILT ESTATE ENTRANCE (LEFT)


ENTERING NORRIE STATE PARK (STAATSBURGH, NY)


CAMPGROUND VISITOR CENTER


WHEN I SNAPPED THIS, I DIDN'T NOTICE THE SQUIRREL IN THE FOREGROUND


NORRIE POINT MARINA ....


THE UBIQUITOUS "BOAT OWNERS ONLY" SIGN




















THE OFFICIAL FLAG OF NEW YORK STATE

AUTUMN IN HYDE PARK, NEW YORK

I'M ELATED BY YOUR RECENT VISIT !!!
THANK YOU FOR DROPPIN' BY.
I HOPE YOU ENJOY THESE PIC'S OF MY HOMETOWN.
PLEASE, HAVE A GLORIOUS AUTUMN !!!

---TROY---



THE HUDSON RIVER AND THE TOWN OF ESOPUS, AS SEEN FROM HYDE PARK


A VIEW OF THE HUDSON FROM HYDE PARK's RIVER ROAD


RIVER ROAD (EAST OF THE RIVER, FACING NORTH)


THE OLD HYDE PARK TRAIN STATION (WITH MY MACHINE IN THE FOREGROUND)


WATCHING MY SPEED LIMIT THROUGH TOWN


A HYDE PARK VIEW OF THE HUDSON RIVER FROM "BARD ROCK"


A PART OF THE VANDERBILT TRAIL AT "BARD ROCK"


LOOKING NORTHWARD, TOWARDS RHINEBECK AND KINGSTON, NY


FACING SOUTH, WITH THE VANDERBILT TRAIL AT LEFT


THIS LONELY GIRL INTRIGUED ME....


.... SO I CREPT CLOSER FOR A BETTER SHOT....


.... AND, SENSING MY PRESENCE, SHE DROPPED HER HOOD FOR JUST A MOMENT


WATCH YOUR STEP HERE !!!


THE OLD BOAT HOUSE, ACROSS THE RIVER, IN ESOPUS


THE VERY TIP OF "BARD ROCK" AT THE VANDERBILT ESTATE


NEXT STOP : STAATSBURGH AND NORRIE STATE PARK (NY)

SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY : THE LAST BROTHER



"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society.___Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.___Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change..... I believe that, in this generation, those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world."--- Robert Francis Kennedy




PRESIDENT AND MRS. KENNEDY


UNITED STATES SENATOR (D, NY) ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY (1925 - 1968)


MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR TED KENNEDY IN "DA NANG", SOUTH VIETNAM (1968)


SENATOR KENNEDY WITH SUPPORTERS (1979)


EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER AND BROTHER TED, IN HYANNISPORT (1983)


SENATOR KENNEDY GREETING CAMPAIGN STAFF (1996)


SENATOR KENNEDY CAMPAIGNING FOR A FELLOW DEMOCRAT (2008)


PRESIDENT OBAMA WITH HIS MENTOR, SENATOR KENNEDY, ON THE WHITEHOUSE GROUNDS (2009)

SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY : IN MEMORIAM

"FOR ME, A FEW HOURS AGO, THIS CAMPAIGN CAME TO AN END.
FOR ALL THOSE WHOSE CARES HAVE BEEN OUR CONCERN, THE WORK GOES ON, THE CAUSE ENDURES, THE HOPE STILL LIVES, AND THE DREAM SHALL NEVER DIE"

---- U.S. SENATOR EDWARD MOORE KENNEDY (1932 - 2009)





























UNITED STATES SENATOR EDWARD MOORE KENNEDY (1932 - 2009)