River scenes

Visited the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers today - our first time. It's full of delightful discoveries, like Wade & Croome's 180-year-old Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Waterford which shows steamboats going up and down the river and depicts what you might see if you were on them, though it also tries to capture the river's twists and turns. (This bit near West Point put me in mind a little

fancifully of the scroll paintings of the nine turns at Wuyishan.) Turn the book upside down to see the other side of the river. At top above is the distance from where we are (between Manhattanville and Bloomingdale at far right) to Phillipsburgh or Yonkers, if you were taking the steamer up. And this is the view you might see if you went back down - though it really looks like the view from out our window today!