Mahoney Road, Stockholm New York - Part 2

I was driving along Mahoney Road, enjoying the wintry, rural sights (see Part 1, posted yesterday) and came upon this well made, small barn and older, totally collapsed barn:

This patriotic home was set back behind the pine trees:

The Jenkins Cemetery:

A couple of outbuildings, one of them nearly hidden by the huge piles of snow:

A stone sided home behind an old tree, with a wonderful, wrap-around porch:

And speaking of wrap-around porches, they don't make them much nicer than this. The summertime views must be wonderful:

This modern home had another wrap-around porch:

And it also had this elegant barn, sided with the same material as the house:

A woodsy style home:

And a big, beautiful, modern home set back in the pines. But I had to get to the feed store, so I put my camera away and concentrated on my trip to buy feed:

Mahoney Road, Stockholm New York - Part 1

It was still mighty cold, but we had a sunny day and I was on my way to the feed store. So as long as I was on the road, I took a detour onto Mahoney Road for a driving tour. The first house I encountered was this comfy, inviting place up on a hill:

Most of what I saw were homes one might expect in a suburb and I supposed that those who were employed in Potsdam or Massena but loved country living were moving out this way:

But there also were farm fields and forests:

And this pasture, surrounded by forest, with a gate sign which read, "Angus Xing." There were no Angus, either black or red, to be seen that day, however. They must have stayed back at the barn:

Way down at the bottom of a hill, at the edge between a farm field and woodland, was this deer stand:

Another suburban type home up on a hill. This one had a "For Sale" sign, so I looked it up when I got home. Alas, it had already been sold and the price was no longer listed:

The only traditional, old family farm I saw included this classic barn and silos:

A house with a wonderful front porch:

And Brasher State Forest lands, with lanes leading back into the trees which I might explore with the dogs when the weather turns nice:

These modern barns looked as if they were used for power equipment of some kind:

This appeared to be an old farm house, though I saw no barns. But there was more yet to see on Mahoney Road and I'll post Part 2 tomorrow:

Mahoney Road, In The Town Of Brasher

It was an uncommonly warm, sunny day - a perfect day for a driving tour of rural roads. I was running out of nearby roads to explore, though, so I checked a map and decided to try a section of Mahoney Road in the town of Brasher. You know how I love ample porches. Well, I must say that this house won permanent first prize in the porch department. Wouldn't you love to have that raised, wraparound porch from which to see the rural scenery?:

The hay fields hadn't yet greened up much yet, but they were still beautiful:

The cross at the base of that tree struck me as likely a beloved pet's burial site:

A small barn/garage:

And this old farm was nearly a town of its own, with a private lane leading to its cluster of buildings:

There were pine forests behind marshy ditches beside the road:

And this wonderful home which must surely also get a prize for glorious porches:

And a super-duper barn:

Red barn and brown home:

This woodsy home:

And an even more woodsy home, this one set so far back in the trees that I had to use my zoom lens:

There were several marshes along the road and this one provided me with my first hearing of Spring Peepers. But I had places to go and things to do, so I put my camera away and aimed my car homeward: