Excursion Friday

This excursion is one of several we took in and around New York City in late May and early June 2019, taking advantage of a few days with really nice weather! Check out the whole series: Untermyer GardensPeggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at New York Botanical GardenGovernor’s IslandStaten Island Ferry (current post)Old Croton Aqueduct And Ossining Weir ====== Right next to the Governor’s Island Ferry terminal is the Staten Island Ferry [...]

This excursion is one of several we took in and around New York City in late May and early June 2019, taking advantage of a few days with really nice weather! Check out the whole series: Untermyer GardensPeggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at New York Botanical GardenGovernor’s Island (current post)Staten Island FerryOld Croton Aqueduct And Ossining Weir ====== Governor’s Island is a place I visited several times when I was in [...]

This excursion is one of several we took in and around New York City in late May and early June 2019, taking advantage of a few days with really nice weather! Check out the whole series: Untermyer GardensPeggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at New York Botanical Garden (current post)Governor’s IslandStaten Island FerryOld Croton Aqueduct And Ossining Weir ====== We recently visited the New York Botanical Garden to take advantage of the [...]

This excursion is one of several we took in and around New York City in late May and early June 2019, taking advantage of a few days with really nice weather! Check out the whole series: Untermyer Gardens (current post)Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at New York Botanical GardenGovernor’s IslandStaten Island FerryOld Croton Aqueduct And Ossining Weir ====== Untermyer Gardens is one of the excursions we took near our home in [...]

When you live in a place, it’s easy to take the sites and activities for granted. As native New Yorkers, it’s especially easy because the work pace of this city is so fast. However, having untethered from office work, we finally have the time and mental bandwidth to visit the places on our excursion wish list. We keep a running list of places we want to visit, so that when [...]

New York City is finally seeing some nice weather, and we can resume our Excursion Fridays, where we visit the many magnificent nature sites the city has to offer. It is surprisingly easy to find nature in NYC but difficult to squeeze in the time when you’re tethered to an office job. Now that Scott has joined me in the virtual consulting world, we have the flexibility to take advantage [...]

New York City may be known for its big buildings and big crowds, but you can get back to nature without having to travel too far. Scott and I moved to Riverdale in the Bronx after I had spent 40+ years living in Manhattan (I even went to college here!) and Scott had spent most of his years in Brooklyn, then Manhattan with me. One of the things we love [...]

We had a few hours to kill on Sunday and the weather was finally starting to turn a little cooler. We've been pleasantly surprised at all of the great places we've found to visit within an hour of our apartment, and we were hoping to find another one. Google Maps searching turned up the Donald M Kendall Sculpture Gardens, which is in Purchase, New York, on the grounds of the PepsiCo world headquarters.

Lenoir Preserve is a small park, only 40 acres, but has lots to offer.  It wasn't at the top of our list of excursions (frankly it wasn't even on the list!), but we found it because we had a 1pm appointment in Yonkers and we were looking for something close by we could visit beforehand, and it's rectangular green space in Google Maps looked very inviting. We enjoyed the structures on the property such as the mansion and gazebo, as well as our sighting of several deer.