I was making a visit up to the farm. Early on Monday morning, I headed south on Route 30 to go hiking with my four youngest dogs. But when I arrived at Paul Smiths College, decided to turn up the road and take a driving photo tour of Keese Mill, New York:
Keese Mill Road begins at Paul Smiths College and winds back into the forest, becoming a seasonal gravel road called Blue Mountain Road. You may recognize it as the road on which many of my recent hikes, including Azure Mountain and Quebec Brook, originated. I drove past the Paul Smiths horse stables and entered the hamlet of Keese Mill. This house beneath the trees was typical:
Trees everywhere, but especially behind all the houses. This hamlet was carved out of the wilderness many years ago and hasn't changed much since then:
I didn't stop to see what these people were growing in those pots, but I now wish that I had:
A nice front porch and a garage:
A bit of elegance here, and I wondered if this might belong to an official at Paul Smiths College:
A smaller, comfortable home:
Earth tones in general, and brown in particular, were popular house colors. When one lives in the midst of this much wild forest, one needs to love nature:
This home appeared to be in the process of renovation, and those upper windows were unlike anything I'd ever seen before. I liked it:
The trim on these windows gave me the impression that this house was very old:
Way up on a hillside, painted the tree colors of green and brown, with a stone foundation:
More green, more flowers, more trees, a nature lover's paradise. But I was just getting started. I'll post more tomorrow:
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