Chapter 2 - The Adirondack Town Of Bloomingdale, New York

I was on my way home from a brief stay at the farm and had a car full of dogs. We'd had a nice rest stop and exploratory mini-hike on the Bloomingdale Bog Trail, and then I'd driven into the hamlet of Bloomingdale to explore. Snow still covered the ground, but I was enjoying seeing the variety of homes:

This, I thought, was the quintessential Adirondack home, complete with its enclosed porch and small barn out back:

This attractive blue and brown home with a basketball hoop was easy for me to imagine on a comfortable summer's day:

And this strangely shaped but attractive home got me wondering how it had come about. Maybe it had begun as a trailer, to which multiple additions and improvements had been added over time. I could only speculate:

Simplicity and functionality with a splash of color:

An old fashioned, town style home:

I guessed this had once been a farm house. It's porch, gables and cedars were all extraordinary:

A sign promised a self-storage business to be built here, but my main interest was in the small log building and the old fashioned garage with both sliding and hinged doors:

There was an old, abandoned church:

And a nifty blue house with attached garage and picket fence:

A white house with an attractive porch:

And set back into the forest, a green and white home. But there was still more to see in Bloomingdale. I'll post Chapter 3 tomorrow: