A Romp In A Frontier Town Field

The dogs and I had just had a very nice rest stop at the Schroon River on the property of the old Frontier Town. I was driving away to rejoin the highway when I changed my mind and decided to look for a bit of autumn beauty before leaving. We ended up parked near this old animal shed. I left old Wally and Winky in the car and took the younger dogs through the trees and over a fence into a former livestock pasture:

The field was eminently walk-able in spite of Fergus' tripping which you can see here. The dogs sniffed and ran and played:

I thought I saw a kitchen sink in the grass and walked over to it only to discover that it was an old bathtub. I supposed it had been used to water whatever livestock had been kept in this field:

We walked farther, over another fence. Madeline and Clover led the way:

And then Daphne and Clover ran ahead toward the end of the field:

There was another livestock shelter lean-to at the end of the field and a large patch of blackberries or raspberries which provided the only really good autumn color still remaining:

The dogs explored the forest edge but no one, including myself, was inclined to push farther:

So we headed back toward the car. Just the other side of that rail fence was the former rodeo arena:

Seamus struck a noble pose for the camera:

And I got an action shot of Fergus leaping over the sagging barbed wire. Seamus, however, is too - well, hefty - to leap over much of anything and had some difficulty getting past that barbed wire. His thick coat of wool, though, acted as protection from its barbs:

And we all bounced our way back toward the car which was parked just the other side of that livestock shed:

This had been a brief but fun addition to our rest stop, and old Wally and Winky didn't seem to have missed us at all. They were probably sleeping. We continued on our way toward the farm: