With Sandy about to beat down our door Halloween week, I decided it was time to take a fall foliage drive before she kicks all those gorgeous leaves to the ground.
Last Friday, I drove to Sleepy Hollow, NY, site of Washington Irving's Headless Horesman fable. A short drive from NYC and on the banks of the majestic Hudson River, Sleepy Hollow and its neighboring town, Tarrytown, did not disappoint.
Irving's story starts at the Old Dutch Church.
It is here where you can pick up a tour and a map of the cemetery.
I received my map at the cemetery's office building where a very nice woman higlighted the route for me.
Besides Irving, Andrew Carnegie, William Rockefeller and Elizabeth Arden (whose real name was Florence Nightingale) are buried here.
Love looking at all of the old stones.
The cemetery was beautiful and I felt as if I had the whole place to myself since there weren't any people, well, living people.
The scariest part of the cemetery for me was the ladies room which was down a dark staircase with motion-sensored lights.
After my trip to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, I headed to
Silver Tips Tea Room in Tarrytown which is just a couple of minutes drive from Sleepy Hollow.
Silver Tips has hundreds of tea choices along with sandwich wraps and scones. I had the Silver Tips Tea Breakfast Blend which included a blend of Assam & Ceylon and Darjeeling.
My visit was just lovely, the calm before the storm, if you will.
I will post more about the area later this week.
"It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet."
- Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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