Showing posts with label farm pond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farm pond. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Dyke Road In Bangor, New York

I'd just finished a driving tour of two scenic, rural roads in Franklin county, New York (previous two posts) and turned onto state highway 11 to head for home. I passed an interesting looking rural road and thought, "I might as well drive down it and take a look." So it was that I came to take a driving tour of Dyke Road in the town of Bangor, New York:

Dyke Road was indeed rural. This house, barn and garage sat so very far off the road that I had to use my zoom lens to photograph it. Surrounded by hay fields, it seemed to me like "the little house on the prairie." I remember thinking how much snow plowing they must have to do in the winter to keep that long driveway clean:

There were fields filled with long, giant, plastic covered tubes of what must surely have been silage:

And fields covered with farm equipment:

This historic farm house and barn sat up on a small hill:

There were golden woodlands:

And green hills, covered with tall Pines:

This farm pond had a wooden pier built out into it, perfect for children who liked to swim in the summertime:

We were just outside the Adirondack Park border and the sandy soil must have been similar, because this moss, birch and Reindeer Lichen covered hillside sure reminded me of the Adirondacks:

What appeared to be an elegant estate sat up on a hill and behind the trees:

This farm house and outbuilding sat so far off the road that I wondered if it had another entrance off another road somewhere. Again, I used my zoom lens to get a picture:

I ended my driving tour at this historic looking building with a new, metal roof. It had the look of an old school house or grange hall, but I suspect that it's just a storage barn for someone now. I saw no houses near it. My driving tour had come to an end, it was past lunchtime and I was hungry. So I put my camera away and aimed for home:

Friday, November 20, 2015

Hazen Road, Town Of Moira

I was taking a driving tour of rural Moira, New York and had just come to the end of Alburg Road (see previous posts). I turned onto Hazen Road and passed this simple home, surrounded by farm fields. It looked to me like a quintessential "little house on the prairie:"

This elaborate barn sat back behind cattails and large bails of hay:

A silo (behind the spruce trees) and several small barns:

A farm house with lots of pumpkins:

A red barn, grain bin and silo:

A busy cluster of barns, equipment and silo. In fact, the road ended at this farm and I had to turn around in its driveway:

I drove on past where I'd begun on Hazen Road and continued my tour, enjoying the lovely rural scenery:

This old barn had a sunflower painted on its door:

Well fed Holsteins lounged comfortably near a farm pond:

And in many places, the cornfields grew right up alongside the road. My windows were down and I could hear the cornstalks and leaves rustling as I passed:

Hazen Road was a small road and I soon arrived at a larger, county road. This prosperous farm was near the intersection:

I turned onto the county road but then quickly pulled over to take one last photo with my camera pointed back toward Hazen Road: