JFM Photography

NYC - New York City. This contemporary Image selected for inclusion in the 11 Midwestern states juried Rockford Art Museum - RAM 2014 73rd Rockford Midwestern Biennial May to September 2014, Rockford, Illinois.

Central Park New York City the English Garden: an intimate English-style garden with seasonal flowerbeds lush with spring bulbs, ringing a water lily pool with a bronze fountain - statue of a girl and a boy pays tribute to Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden. April 19, 2006 was an exceptionally warm early spring that year on the day when this photograph was taken. The English garden was in full bloom for the wedding that took place that day.

The Carriage House was done with a Blue Grunge Effect.  Wilderstein  - The Queen Anne Style Mansion in Rhinebeck, New York of the Suckley family.  
It was designed in 1888 by Arnout Cannon Jr.. The Carriage House is at the Wilderstein Estate of the late Margaret  “Daisy” Suckley (1891 – 1991), Rhinbeck, New York. Wilderstein is one of the historic mansions on the Hudson of the American Aristocracy. Margaret  “Daisy”  Suckley was a sixth cousin; confidante and alleged mistress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd  President of the United States). This relationship was the focus of the 1995 book – Closest Companion - by Geoffery Ward and the subject of the 2011 film “Hyde Park on Hudson”, as well as an archivist for the first American presidential library.[1] She was one of four women at the Little White House with Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Georgia, when he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1945.

This is the beginning of this year’s grapes harvest. Jonathan Edwards Winery, 74 Chester Main Rd, North Stonington, CT 06359
(860) 535-0202. Located in the quaint town of North Stonington, Jonathan Edwards Winery is situated on a beautiful 48-acre hilltop about nine miles from the Long Island Sound. Jonathan Edwards handcrafts both premium Napa Valley, California and Estate Connecticut wines to highlight each coasts’ unique climate.

Winter Harbor Lighthouse is located on Mark Island in Winter Harbor and also known as Mark Island Lighthouse.  Latitude: 44.36143 Longitude: -68.08764.  Built in1887 near the entrance to Frenchman’s Bay across from Bar Harbor, Maine. It is fixed white light beaming from a fifth –order Fresnel lens at a focal plane of 37 feet above high water. It was replaced by a lighted bell buoy in August 1933.  It was then sold to a series of writers. One pair Pat & Rene Prud’hommeaux wrote the children’s book The Light in the Tower a fictional novel (ASIN: B0007E64BI) published in 1957 under the name Joan Howard about the Christmas tree they set in the tower each year for the fisherman. Lighthousefriends.com. 

Winter Harbor Lighthouse is located on Mark Island in Winter Harbor and also known as Mark Island Lighthouse.  Latitude: 44.36143 Longitude: -68.08764.  Built in1887 near the entrance to Frenchman’s Bay across from Bar Harbor, Maine. It is fixed white light beaming from a fifth –order Fresnel lens at a focal plane of 37 feet above high water. It was replaced by a lighted bell buoy in August 1933.  It was then sold to a series of writers. One pair Pat & Rene Prud’hommeaux wrote the children’s book The Light in the Tower a fictional novel (ASIN: B0007E64BI) published in 1957 under the name Joan Howard about the Christmas tree they set in the tower each year for the fisherman. Lighthousefriends.com.