In which....Cold Spring and a few random photos.

The problem with being a travel doll in winter is that winter usually screws up your travel plans.

However, since Maddy was in dire need of a trim and shape, we headed down to Cold Spring today.

Main Street....

From the muni lot we parked in....

At 21F, it was really living up to the name. That is the Hudson River somewhere under all that ice.

We just missed getting an Amtrak train in the background of this shot. Talk about your bullet train.

I will spare you any "train song" jokes....

Cold.....

Super pretty.....

But super cold.....

Really should have remembered my coat....













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This is the walkway leading up to the theater entrance at the local mall. (Taken when we went to see The Desolation of Smaug. I thought it was a two-parter, not three. Oh well, just means more hobbit to look forward to!)

This pic really doesn't capture the scale. When you're in the middle of it, you really feel like you're in some weird dystopian future - or else in the City on Camazotz, walking toward the building where the Man With The Red Eyes awaits amid all those mainframe computers, ready to sentence you to reprogramming via IT....

A little better, but the camera doesn't do the overwhelming scale justice.












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A rock star Hitty such as myself only drinks the finest Rock Star Tea.... :)

This was taken at New Grace Chinese in Kent, NY. Best Chinese place around here.