Hudson Valley Updates
Posted: December 14th, 2025 | Filed under: Out Of TownHome of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park:
On Market Street in Rhinebeck, this . . .
. . . is now this:
We visited Dia Beacon back in September 2021. I thought I already had pictures of Dia, having visited there sometime in the aughts, so I let our then-seven-year-old have fun with my phone. He ended up spamming like 200-plus images. I straightened the orientation but for the most part otherwise mostly preserved the compositions (I did this one other time at the Natural History Museum back in 2016.)
Some images looked just like this:
Or this:
And they were all portrait orientation, lol, so it *looked* like the perspective of a seven-year-old, with everything at the top half of the frame:
But sometimes that top-half composition looked surprisingly, I don’t know, composed:
He kept circling back to the Richard Serra pieces for some reason:
And there were some fun unexpected compositions that surfaced from that:
This day I think I only took these, by the way:
So hilariously I came to realize that I actually *don’t* have any pictures of Dia from when we visited before — as I suspected, you used to not be able to take pictures inside the galleries (nowadays it seems you can take pictures everywhere because social media I guess — they’ll even let you take a picture of the curtain call at a Broadway show). Anyway, thus the Dia Beacon pics.
Beaver Pond Campground in Harriman State Park:
