Scenes From The Keene Valley

We'd had a wonderful trip up to the farm and were on our way home when I stopped at the Keene Cemetery for a look at the high peaks all covered in clouds. Little Madeline had never been there before and ran happily back and forth. I got a roll of poop pick-up bags out of my glove compartment just in case:

The scenery was beautiful and the dogs were happy to be out and stretching their legs:

They collected at various smells. One would get a whiff of something interesting and the others would crowd around to share the experience:

But as for me, I mostly enjoyed the glorious scenery of high peaks brushed with clouds:

This rest stop lasted only a few minutes and I soon had the dogs loaded back up into the car so that we could continue our journey. I hadn't had to use the poop pick-up bags:

I snapped one last photo as we drove out of the cemetery:

We continued on our way through the Keene Valley where I caught another view of the cloud misted mountains:

And at Marcy Field, I got an excellent view of both clouds and Adirondack peaks:

All around this flat valley floor are mountains, and on that day they were all mysterious wrapped in veils of swirling after-the-rain clouds:

I said goodbye to Marcy Field and continued on our way toward Albany:

The mountain views here are always changing - green in the summer, red and gold in the autumn, brown later on, white in the winter, sometimes in sun, sometimes in shade, sometimes in clouds:

And I stopped for a view of what I've always assumed was Nippletop (for obvious reasons). On this day its "nipple" was coated with white snow which made it look even more like a giant breast poking up from the earth. But at that point we were almost to the Northway where the leisurely, picture taking part of the trip would be over and the high speed race south to Albany would begin: