Discovering Tiny Skerry, New York - Part 3

I was taking a driving tour of the very rural, tiny, Skerry New York and had the dogs with me in the car. It was a lovely autumn day for sightseeing:

This home had the steel roofing which is so popular up here in big snow country:

And there were placid cattle, chewing their cuds. These Black Angus were the biggest Angus I've ever seen, perhaps half Holstein:

I passed by picturesque farm houses:

And woodsy homes. The forest was everywhere:

And then I found the Skerry Cemetery and turned onto the lane that would take me to see it:

Clearly, this was an old cemetery and it reminded me that the area was once more populated than it is now:

I left the dogs in the car and got out to take a closer look at some of the headstones:

Orange lichens covered many of the oldest headstones. This one read: Elliott: Mother Addie L, 1863-1927 and her dau. Addie May Reynolds, 1890-1929. Her infant dau, 1929:

 All I could read beneath the orange lichens on this one was Edna, died 1886:

 Gilman Livingston, died Dec. 12, 1884, age 74 y'rs:

 Walter W. Tarbell, died June 1, 1885, age 32y'rs. A logging or farming accident, perhaps?:

I was high up on a hill, overlooking my parked car with the dogs' faces in the windows, watching my every move. But our driving tour was over, so I pocketed my camera and headed down the hill to begin the drive home:

Discovering Tiny Skerry, New York - Part 2

I had brought the dogs along with me for a driving tour to tiny Skerry, New York. We'd driven about twenty miles southeast and entered the settlement to have a look around:

There were old barns:

And farm houses:

Modern homes, such as this log home:

And old, ornate homes such as this one. I realized that I had seen this house before - when I had made a driving tour of Reynoldston, New York. I checked when I got home and indeed, they are only 4.6 miles apart, though both settlements are so tiny that it's difficult to know where one ends and the other begins:

This old farm house looked comfortable and all ready for Thanksgiving dinner:

A friendly house in Skerry:

A sizable old farm house with a big barn out back, still a working farm:

Tractors, barn and horses:

Old abandoned barns alongside the road:

I passed this impressive stone home:

And this old, abandoned house:

This home looked comfortable and friendly as I drove out of the tiny settlement of Skerry, but my driving tour wasn't quite over yet. I'll post Part 3 tomorrow:

Discovering Tiny Skerry, New York - Part 1

The neighbors mentioned a small town named Skerry, in Franklin County, which I'd never heard of before. So I found it on a map and decided to drive there. It was a lovely autumn day and I was in the mood to get out of the house, so I put the dogs in the car and we all drove about twenty miles southwest:

There were cornfields and forests all along the small, county roads leading to Skerry - but not many homes:

But there were a few homes and farms, some of them quite nice:

This was real country living, a locale which made my own situation look densely populated:

But the air was crisp and clear, the woodlands still retaining a small bit of color, and I was enjoying the ride:

And the dogs too were enjoying their outing. Jack, Daphne and Clover watched out the front window, while Seamus and Fergus watched out the back window:


This looked to me to be someone's summer cottage:

There were forests everywhere. The giant trees were cut down back when the area was raped for minerals and lumber, but it's been staging a comeback ever since:

Most people had very nice homes:

This home, I suspected, was an old farm house:

There were barns and fields, scattered in among the suburban type homes and forests:

This house was very large - perhaps a duplex?:

I continued to enjoy the scenery as I neared the settlement of Skerry, which showed on the map as a tiny cluster of houses. But I'll post about that tomorrow: