Showing posts with label Franklin County Road 16. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Franklin County Road 16. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2015

Bacon Road, Franklin County Road 16 - Part 2

I was driving rural, scenic Bacon Road in West Bangor, New York (see Part 1, yesterday's post). Historic barns and farm houses were everywhere:

And there were plenty of corn and hay fields:

Old outbuildings, silos, snowmobile and pickup truck:

A historic barn, apparently built in sections over the years:

A classic farm house, with a small model of a Holstein cow on the front lawn:

A red farm house beneath a tree which was just beginning to leaf out:

More corn stubble, evidence of last year's crop:

A major farm with multiple barns, bins and silos:

I'd imagine this was where much of the corn grown in the surrounding fields was dried and stored:

This elaborate farm appeared to be very large and much of the family which lived there was outside, mending fences alongside the road:

I imagined this farm house as a place to return to for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner:

The last photo I took on Bacon Road was of this old farm house, laid out in the linear, New England manner. That was the end of my driving tour, so I put my camera away and headed for home:

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Bacon Road, Franklin County Road 16 - Part 1

We had another beautiful spring day and I was on the road, so I decided to take a driving tour of a scenic, rural road. I turned onto Bacon Road in West Bangor, New York:

The road began as pleasant, suburban homes in a country setting:

The homes here looked to me to not be farms but just folks who loved rural life:

I stopped for a photo of this lovely patch of Daffodils in someone's lawn:

This was probably a farm house when it was built:

Even the woodlands were dotted with Daffodils:

This carport didn't strike me as unusual until I got home and looked more closely at the photo. Then I wondered how they'd gotten the car in there - and why:

The road began to look more agricultural as farm fields, barns and silos became more common:

There were lots of corn fields, with last year's stubble:

 This old barn sat right up next to the road and appeared to still be in active service, even though part of it had collapsed:

On the other side of the barn was an addition which appeared to be unused:

A bright red sugar house and bulk containers for sap. The road was becoming ever more scenic and rural, so I kept driving and snapping photos. I'll post Part 2 tomorrow: