Small Town Charm

I left my walking tour of the lawn display at Martin's Greenhouse (previous two posts) and began driving State Route 11C between Winthrop and Brasher Falls, New York. The houses were lovely and the general aura was of an incredibly pleasant place to live, so I snapped a few pictures:

Nearly all the houses had wonderful front porches. Even brand new homes in these parts usually have porches:

And there were American flags, trees and flowers everywhere:

Many homes were quite large and many had old carriage houses out behind them:

This home had flowers, front porch, trees and carriage house:

A big house with a turret. If I remember correctly, it also sat on the banks of the St. Regis River:

A wrap-around porch with chairs for sitting and chatting:

Two rocking chairs on this porch:

A lovely home, again with an extensive porch:

Elaborate ornamentation with an impressive barn out back:

See what I mean about front porches? What's not to like?:

The last house of this series was in wonderful condition. Its porch was smaller, but still big enough for small town afternoons and evenings:

NYS Route 11C From North Lawrence To Brasher Falls

If you saw yesterday's post, you know that I was taking a driving tour and had entered the little village of North Lawrence, New York. I'd intended to end my driving tour at that point, but the village was so picturesque and the sky so blue that I decided to add another chapter. I was on my way to the feed store anyway, so I just kept driving and snapping photos. I passed this white church, worthy of a Christmas card:

A very large Victorian home with two porches and a carriage house or small barn:

A large brick church, this one also worthy of a Christmas card:

A log home:

I passed out of North Lawrence and into Brasher Falls, where I snapped a picture of this small farm:

And this complex of red barns:

A farm house with burlap protected shrubbery, bird feeders and outbuildings:

An old fashioned barn and wood shingled silo:

This was the extraordinary home which went with the above barn and silo. Beautiful, isn't it? But this was my last photo as I was about to enter the village of Brasher Falls and from there to village of Winthrop, where the feed store was located. There's a short stretch of Route 11C between the two villages which I'll use for driving tour photos some day, but I'd spent enough time already and needed to buy feed. So this ended my picture taking for the day: