Rodger Stevens is an artist who works primarily with wire. But he has added Hudson River driftwood to his repertoire since moving with his family from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to Nyack three years ago. “We looked at countless houses dripping with charm,” he wrote me about his move. “But the thought of having to maintain a very old house while raising two very young kids”“Ella, 8, pictured here with her father, and Clyde, 5””seemed downright irrational.” Photo: Mark Seelen