McCarthy Road, In The Town of Brasher, New York

I drove to Agway to buy feed, bringing Seamus along with me so I could weigh him on their antique platform scale. He's been on a diet and I wanted to see if he'd lost weight. Unfortunately, we'd read the scale incorrectly the last time, so I never got an answer. Anyway, I decided to take a driving tour after we left Agway, so we headed for McCarthy Road, in the town of Brasher:

The view from the road was all hay fields and woodlands, and I almost decided to go elsewhere for photos of farm houses and barns. But then I realized that this was lush, rich scenery and it too would make a good blog post. So I kept driving:

There were corn fields, hay fields, old fences and rural scenery aplenty:

Then I began to see old barns and farm houses, though they were few and far between:

A farm house:

A hay field:

A new looking barn, sitting quite far off the road:

A suburban type home with a big lawn:

An old farm house with a split-rail fence and a barn out back:

Behind the trees, I saw a hay wagon and big, round bales. The haying season was in full gear:

There were wetlands along the road:

And a few farm houses. But then McCarthy Road ended at a county road. I decided to take another road back home, and I'll post about that tomorrow:

McCarthy Road, Stockholm/Winthrop, New York - Part 2

McCarthy Road had begun rather heavily settled, at least for this rural area, but I saw more farms as I continued along, including this field full of recently baled hay:

There were long stretches of forest along the road:

And stone walls:

Old farm houses:

This place looked historic and I wasn't sure anyone even lived here until I saw lights on inside:

This old barn had been put to use as a garage for a modern vehicle:

This small barn was so old that I don't think it was used anymore at all:

I could see a large body of water, probably a beaver marsh, behind the trees and grape vines:

I passed through more forest:

This place looked too small to be a house and it was rather far off the road. But then I noticed the bicycle and the groomed lawn. Maybe it was a house:

An old farm house and barn:

Another old farmstead:

This square house had a welcoming look to it with its outdoor lights on because of the rain. It made a fitting end to my driving tour of McCarthy Road. I put my camera away and continued on to the Agway store to buy feed:

McCarthy Road, Stockholm/Winthrop, New York - Part 1

We had a rainy day and I was in no mood to work outdoors anyway, so I took a driving tour to McCarthy Road in the town of Stockholm, and especially in the hamlet of Winthrop (which is within the town of Stockholm):

McCarthy Road began less rural and more settled than I'd expected. This mobile home did not appear to be lived in any more:

There were well kept homes beneath old Maple trees:

Neat and tidy mobile homes:

And modular homes. Most every home and yard showed that someone had been spending time mowing and gardening. Many, perhaps most, homes had garden gnomes, planters, benches, birdbaths, etc. to ornament them:

This mobile home was a good example:

McCarthy Road began to get both more woodsy and more agricultural. This log home showed the more woodsy style:

There were hay fields, bordered with trees:

Old barns, some of them nearly fallen down:

Old farmsteads, all fixed up with split rail fences and Day-Lilies just about to bloom:

Someone had been doing some repairs on this old barn to keep in top-top shape:

And there was a series of hay fields, each of them with rail fencing along the road:

This modular had an outbuilding and lots of roses in bloom. I still hadn't seen any commercial agriculture, but we were nearing the hamlet of Winthrop, so I figured that I wasn't going to see any on this road. Yet I was only about half way along McCarthy Road. I'll post Part 2 tomorrow: