Chapter 2 - Amazing Peru Street, In The Town Of Lawrence, New York

I continued on my driving tour of Peru Street, passing more Amish farms (note the white house, red barns and clothesline with black clothes):

This Amish farm had a spectacular barn and lots of hand painted signs, selling hand woven baskets and other items:

This sign advertised lumber, and I could see that they also sold firewood. The piles of huge logs piled quite high, caused me to wonder if they'd hired neighbors to bring them out of the woods:

This was not an Amish farm, I didn't think, though it was surrounded by them:

This was an Amish farm, as evidenced by the white house, chimney pipes, board and batten siding - and the ubiquitous clothesline:

But then I seemed to pass out of Amish territory and into a settlement of "English," or non-Amish, such as myself:

I've searched the internet for an explanation of the "Deno Homestead" but couldn't find anything. My guess is that it was a tree farm willed to the state and currently managed by the Department of Environmental Conservation. The state does have tree farms, where they raise seedlings for distribution in the cause of conservation, but I could find no reference to this site:

A nifty mobile home, set way back behind the trees:

A modern ranch home, also set back into the trees:

This home sat up on a hill:

I passed by more farm fields, some of which had old farm equipment resting in the snow:

And a rather spectacular barn and silo, all surrounded by fields of ice. But I was only about halfway along Peru Street, so there was more to see. I'll post Chapter 3 tomorrow: