Part 2 - Gokey Road, From Nicholville To Dickinson Center

I passed a sign saying I'd left St. Lawrence County and entered Franklin County.  But I was still on Gokey Road, so I kept driving, photographing nice rural homes beneath big trees:

Another frozen brook:

And a classic farm house:

This outbuilding had lots of firewood and big logs for making more firewood. And two old vehicles:

A shed with a snow plow and steel tank of some sort. Notice that the woods were everywhere, surrounding and backing up all human structures:

This rambling home and outbuildings looked all set for winter:

And then, to my surprise, I passed a baseball field and playground equipment. It seemed odd, given the extremely rural nature of the road:

But then I passed a sign saying I was entering the village of Dickinson Center. The houses became much more frequent:

Indeed, I'd left the rural landscape and entered the village:

Dickinson Center is an attractive little hamlet, notable in part for its isolation, far from any other settlements:

The Deer River passed through the town and helped paint a pretty picture of a snowy New England village:

I snapped a quick shot of these lovely old sheds before putting my camera away and heading for home. My driving tour was over:

Part 1 - Gokey Road, From Nicholville To Dickinson Center

It was the first day of an arctic blast which promised even lower temperatures than the recent polar vortex. But it was "only" about zero and sunny, so I grabbed my camera and headed east on Route 11B for a driving tour of a local road. When I saw the sign for Gokey Road, I remembered it as the place where I visited an Amish farm with a sawmill. So I turned down it for a few photos:

It was exceedingly rural and at first I saw only overgrown fields and this frozen brook:

There were woodlands, but they all had small trees, which probably meant they were farm fields not too many years earlier:

An old farm gate led to a path in the woods. That giant chunk of ice was formerly on the road, a remnant of our big ice storm several weeks earlier:

But then I began to see houses:

This small home was so far back in the woods that I had to use my zoom lens to get a photo of it:

When I got to the Amish farm I'd previously visited, I found that it had many buggies parked in the yard:

It was not a Sunday, so I wondered what the occasion was. A funeral? A wedding? All I knew for sure was that there are lot of local Amish families, more than I'd previously realized:

I drove on and saw some very nice homes, all tucked comfortably in amongst the trees:

There was a frozen beaver pond with a snow covered lodge:

These outbuildings belonged to a home across the road, but the sun prevented any useable photos from the opposite side of the road. I had to settle for a picture of the outbuildings and leave the house for your imagination:

More outbuildings, apparently not being used this winter since they weren't plowed. But what interested me was the sign in the driveway which read, "Beware Of Attack Gardener." But there was more to see on Gokey Road, so I'll post Part 2 tomorrow: