Sky Stuff

This is a Rutan Defiant, a homebuilt experimental airplane. That vertical surface projecting down behind the nosewheel is a rudder.

Two bridges over the Hudson River. The furthest one is the Mid-Hudson Bridge (U.S.44). The closest one is the bridge that the Central New England Railroad (later part of the New Haven Railroad) built in the 1880s. I think it may have been the first railroad bridge over the Hudson River. It was in use until a fire in 1974. By then, freight traffic was on the decline and most freight was going down the Northeast Corridor anyway, so it was abandoned. After decades of planning, the bridge was renovated into a walkway and it is now a part of the New York state park system.

Old money at work. Someone built that house and then cut down a few thousand feet of trees in order to have a river view.