Part 2 - Beebe Road In Hopkinton, New York

It was snowing rather hard and I was taking a driving tour of an extremely rural road. This farm house looked comfortable behind the big old maple and smaller pines:

There were empty fields, apparently hay fields which had not been cut recently:

And old vehicles parked along a farm fence:

A home behind two stone pillars with a snow blower out front:

An especially nice old home with a stone chimney:

This lovely old barn and silo really caught my eye and I wondered what FGF Feeds had been (or perhaps still was). But I guess I'll never know:

A car passed me while I was stopped to take pictures. A little farther down the road, a woman got out with her dog to take it for a walk in those lovely (but cold) surroundings. I stopped and asked if I could take her picture and she agreed. Perhaps she was just too cold to argue:

This home or camp was so far off the road that I had to use the zoom lens:

And the zoom lens was needed here also:

On my way home, I saw flocks of what appeared to be white birds flying past my windshield and landing in  the corn stubble. Of course they were beautiful Snow Buntings. I was especially happy to have the zoom lens here:

I continued on my way but stopped once more for this very dark colored doe in yet another corn field. She wasn't shy at all. She picked her head up to look, decided I was no threat and continued eating. This was the end of my driving tour. There are very many rural roads which I haven't even seen yet, so I hope to tour more of them in the future:

Part 1 - Beebe Road In Hopkinton, New York

The snow had just begun to fall when I decided to take a driving tour of nearby Beebe Road in Hopkinton. I'd noticed on a map that it ran right down the western border of Adirondack Park lands. Indeed, this "Entering Adirondack Park" sign stood right at the intersection:

The road was all farmland at first (yes, that's a farm house on the horizon):

And hardwood forests. Most of the trees were small except along the road, which led me to believe these were former farm fields, abandoned and grown up to woodlands:

And pine forests. Both White and Red Pines are native to this area and quite common:

I came to this collection of big equipment, truck trailers, etc. I figured there was a house somewhere since the driveway was plowed and there were trash cans along the road:

I pulled forward a bit and found more Neptune trailers and a mobile home. The steps in front of the doors were not shoveled and had no footprints, so at first I assumed no one lived there any more. Then I realized there was probably a back door which they used:

Another collection of buildings, more trash cans, a dog run, a canoe and a giant pile of firewood:

There were lots of outbuildings, but I suspected that the house was farther back off the road:

Another mobile home, this one with two snowmobiles. I'm sure they got lots of use this winter:

Many homes were far off the road and I had to use the zoom lens to snap a photo of them:

This farm house had a collection of barns out back and lovely White Pines in the front. But there was more to see on Beebe Road and I'll post Part 2 tomorrow: