A Drive Through Wildwood, New York - Part 2

I'd surely taken a shine to the hamlet of Wildwood. It may have seemed remote and rural, surrounded as it was by forest, but the houses were modern and comfortable:

Yet it really was located in the forest, to which this pile of logs will attest:

There were homes off in, and nearly hidden by the forest:

And neat homes with well constructed retaining walls:

Modular homes:

And lots of firewood:

Big lawns and wooden fences:

Old farmsteads from a long ago era:

And lots of decks and front porches for viewing the lovely countryside all around:

This appeared to me to be an old farm house although I saw no big barn:

This modular had an elaborate porch/deck:

And this home had a sugar house out back. This spring, I'd heard, had been a big one for maple sugar producers. But it was time for me to move on and check out somewhere new. I'll post about that tomorrow:

A Drive Through Wildwood, New York - Part 1

We'd already taken a driving tour of the hamlet of High Flats and hiked the Beaver Bridge Trail (see previous posts). Our next stop was the tiny hamlet of Wildwood, New York. You can see the sort of roads on which I discovered it:

The dogs and I were having a grand time:

I passed by a Great Blue Heron and snapped a photo which didn't turn out well enough to use. This tom turkey was displaying in the middle of the road for his harem until my car approached. Yet still I was able to get a good shot of him as he took his hens off into the forest. He was quite colorful and you'll be able to see it better if you click to enlarge the photo:

I began finding homes along the narrow roads in Wildwood:

Most were nice homes and it seemed to me that this was country living at its finest:

There were big homes:

And homes with outbuildings. This one seemed especially nice:

A red barn in the woods:

And a modern, green octagon house with a traditional split rail fence:

An old farmstead:

More nice homes:

and a log cabin style home. Wildwood seemed remote although these people were quite close to Potsdam. I'll post Part 2 tomorrow: