Park Square and Streetcar, Hudson

well lookie here...

I just noticed that Google has (finally!) updated their satellite imagery.   (Took them almost 4 years.  Did they read my blog post a couple months back when I bitched about this? ;)  Judging from my screen shot of the waterfront above, it appears the new imagery of Hudson was taken during Artswalk weekend;  I seem to remember the etsy tent that was pitched just south of the bathroom building.
Looks like a pretty happening waterfront!

stalking the landscape with google earth

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Truck House

440 Warren Street,
erected in 1889.

the house on first street

I liked that funky little house on First Street.

I used to walk by it a lot and wonder if someone would 

come along and rescue it

before it completely deteriorated.

Watched this valance of poison ivy that had grown inside the kitchen window 

and even ventured inside once years ago before it was boarded up---

there were purple and pink walls

and a faux tile shower held together with...masking tape!...

Anyway. The house was demolished last week---

but is immortalized in this beautiful moon-over-hudson painting by Edward Avedesian, 

which hangs in the church at Carrie's house

 (Edward lived a half block away--

most likely had a perfect view of the

 house from his upstairs window.)

bird's eye geek note

I've been doing a lot of cycling this summer, and one of my rituals after I get home from a ride is to map out my route  (different each day) with online software that will tell me how far I went, what altitudes I reached, even how many calories I burned.   Using google and its satellite imagery has a been a great tool in deciding where to venture next, but when I started to learn how to read weather maps recently, I made an interesting (to me, anyway) discovery.
Google hasn't updated their satellite images in our area in like- three years!  What up?

Check out upper Fairview Avenue, as it currently shows on Google:

Wasteland.

Now look at the exact same area on Weather dot com:

Complete with all the new bigbox crap.

Here's the Columbia Land Conservancy Area on Rod and Gun Road, as it appears today, with the pavilion and silo:

But if you were on your way up that road, and navigating with Google images - you'd think you were going to drive by a working farm on private property!

That farm hasn't been there for years.

I have yet to figure out how often the Weatherdotcom website updates their basic landscape satellite photos, which serve as an underlay for their weather info.  I'm guessing the websites probably have to pay a fee to the satellite companies to use their images, and then subscribe according to their need.

In any case, the current image for Union and First Streets shows an empty lot (now under development), and the trees on Union Street haven't been cut down yet.  So we can deduce the images are updated at least every few months.

 I'll be watching this area hoping to figure out the update schedule, unless someone can enlighten me...

Musicians in Hudson, 1935

Sickles Entertainers, Hudson, NY August 1935
(taken at the Firemen's Home)

(A high resolution version of the whole photo can be found here.)