More Views of Croton Point Park

"While strolling through the park one day......."

No extra charge for the beauty

My outdoor autumn carpeting

As mentioned in an earlier post, there is a bathhouse situated along the main road into the park that has fallen into disrepair and no long in use.

MicroMacro Mural on Bathhouse

What catches the visitor's eye are the four murals painted on the road facing side of the abandoned building. At first I thought they were composed of inlaid ceramic tiles forming the mosaic.  Upon closer inspection, however....

....they're paintings on squares of wood.  There must be some type of treatment that has preserved the surface all these years.  I researched the origin of the murals and found that Mariah Fee is the artist and the murals were created in 1997:

About Mariah Fee

"The site of the Micro/Macro Mural is the Hudson River, Croton Point Park, New York.  The project began as a collaboration between two artists and was funded by the Westchester Arts Council.  The early states of the mural were sponsored by the Council for mural work in the Westchester schools; therefore, a curriculum-inspired theme of the plant ecology and the geology of this stretch of the Hudson River was the original source for the imagery.  Research by the artists deepened and diversified the visual narrative.  The four panels juxtapose micro close views with macro birds eye vistas." 

Source of Information

From website

This is how they appeared when I photographed them Thursday.  I've cropped and enhanced the photos.  Thank you Chuck for the Canon G7 (and Picasa) both of which have been doing a good job with my photographs.

"The far left panel is the river’s macro view; an almost aerial aspect, a mapping, the Shad life cycle, indigenous plants."  

"Next, the microcosm of the Hudson’s water: plankton, water fleas, diatoms."

"Then, a macro vista shows the great river curve, the grand presence of the rock’s ancient earth formations."

"Finally, the geological micro panel of the native rock, patterned sections of Palisade’s basalt, quartz and crinoids, fossils found in calcium carbonate deposits of marbles and limestone."

Does this remind you of one of Windows XP's desktop themes?

Imagine traveling all the way from Elizaville to greet me?
How nice was that?

November 1st and our trees are not all changed.

                    

Well, that's it for today.  With blustery winds trying to clear the trees of the already dead leaves, the temperature of 47 is creating a wind chill of 37 degrees.  Next to the pitter-patter of rain on the roof, (almost) "howling" winds are my favorite sounds...not to mention the rocking motion of Winnie now and then.  Love it!  Time to start dinner.  Tonight, it'll be hot French onion soup with rice (from leftovers) topped with shaved Jarlsberg cheese and a glass of Cupcake Chardonnay.  You'll have to go without the visual.  My reading for this week has been the third novel of Brandon Sanderson's Trilogy, Mistborn: "The Hero of Ages."