Pierrepont, New York (And West Pierrepont)

We'd arrived up at the farm on a Sunday afternoon. I had no plans for Monday, but given the predicted weather of blue skies and unseasonably warm temperatures, I knew that I wanted to go hiking. So I drove southwest toward the Wolf Lake loop trail. As I passed through the tiny town of Pierrepont, I decided to take some photos:

This is about as rural a "town" as one can find anywhere, with no real business district that I could find. Just country homes, barns, silos and fields:

Lovely old barns and horse sheds:

Lots of people appeared to be home and I couldn't understand why until I realized that it was Veteran's Day and many were off of work:

The very finest of country living:

It was early in the morning and the sun was still quite low, making many photos challenging:

But the overall look of the town was friendly, countrified and comfortable:

With big old trees and front porches from which to watch the neighbors pass by:

Pierrepont was so very rural and sparsely settled that I laughed out loud when I passed a sign saying I'd entered West Pierrepont. I don't now remember where one village ended and the other began:

In the early morning light:

I thought this old barn was just about the prettiest thing I'd seen in a long time. But then I'm a sucker for old barns:

This house had the look of an old general store or feed store and I also liked its brook stone foundation. But this was all the time I had for dillydallying in Pierrepont and continued on my way toward the next town, Russell: