The View from the Top

Among the many excellent things about working at Poughkeepsie Day School and living in the mid-Hudson Valley is that you are never far from so many places of great natural beauty.

It’s fall and the trees are ablaze with color.

Here is the view east from the top of the fire tower on Stissing mountain last Saturday. The water is Thompson Pond – headwaters of Wappinger Creek – and full of waterfowl. Below is the view to the west – across the Hudson to the Catskills.