Summertime

A few photos from this summer.

Saturday July 30, after the rain:

Sunday August 14, 6.30 in the evening:

Summer 2015

Down by the Stoney Clove Creek:

2014-2015 photos

A look at the Chichester-Silver Hollow neighborhoods across the months, from road work on Route 214 near the entrance to the CPOA grounds, across early 2014, the Phoenicia Voice Festival, autumn, the reopening of the Phoenicia Library, into 2015.


Route 214 work (Autumn-Winter 2013-2014)


January-February 2014

March 2014

April 2014

May 2014

Summer 2014

Phoenicia 2014 festival of the Voice

September 2014

Autumn 2014

November 2014

Phoenicia Library reopens


Winter 2014-2015

Summer programs 2014

July 5 CPOA events:

• 10am: general meeting
• 6 pm: cocktails and barbecue

July  26:
     Progressive Dinner and desserts

30 July - 3 August:
     Phoenicia Festival of the Voice

August 16:
     CPOA DIY BBQ

August 23:
     Train ride: Arkville - Roxbury

August 30:
     Labor Day weekend cocktails and barbecue

• 10am: general meeting
• 6 pm: cocktails and barbecue

On a High Note

Story from the Chronogram on the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice.

• The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice will be held on July 30-August 3

When the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice returns to the Catskills this July, it will have raised the bar—about two octaves higher.

Celebrating its fifth season this year, the festival welcomes countertenor Brian Asawa to its mainstage. Asawa is one of the world's foremost countertenors, having brought his powerful, flexible, and impressively high vocal range to such world-class venues as the Metropolitan Opera, the Palais Garnier in Paris, and Madrid's Teatro Real. Capable of singing within typically female vocal registers—contralto, mezzo-soprano, and sometimes even soprano—countertenors are today relatively rare. The festival will feature Asawa in this summer's edition of "Voices of Distinction," a program of some of the most exceptional vocal works of the Baroque period. The artist will also host a free lecture titled "The Art of I'castratti," in which he will discuss the historic, long-abandoned practice of castrating young singers as well as the vocal aesthetic of a modern countertenor.

Another high note of the festival, and an accent of this year's Spanish theme, will be a staging of Gioachino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." Based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comic French play of the same name, the opera buffa is one of the most popular and widely performed operas in the world—few today can hear its overture without Bugs Bunny coming to mind. Festival Executive Director Maria Todaro and internationally acclaimed baritone and Phoenicia newcomer Lucas Meachem will top the bill, singing the principle roles of the beautiful Rosina and the clever Figaro.

Stony Clove Creek

Memorial Day weekend, 2014

Autumn begins in New York

Stony Creek

Shandaken Day 2012

end of July 2011

late June 2010

As June ended, the temperature rose to summer heights, and Chichester took on color: day lilies in their lush oranges, the sky in its cerulean blue, plants and trees and lawns in splendid green.

  The community grounds have recovered from the harsh winter.

Remains of last summer's bonfire: surely seasoned wood.

The swimming hole is ready.

But, the water level is down severely.