County Route 55, Part 2

I was touring County Route 55, which began in North Lawrence, New York and ended in Nicholville (see also Part 1, yesterday). This was rural scenery at its finest, with lots of old barns such as this one:

This older farm house had a sparkling, new, yellow steel roof and modern barns out back:

A modern farm with feed bin and silo:

Stauffer Farm, one of the largest in the area. Those big tanker trucks are sometimes seen, hauling liquid manure up and down my own road:

Another picturesque farm:

An older, small barn with a modern equipment shed attached:

Several old barns and silo:

A stone cairn along the road, with a corn field behind it. Beyond the corn stubble were more woodlands:

This small stream burbled through some woods right next to the road:

This appeared to be a firewood operation:

Another old barn and silo:

A lovely old farm. And yet there was more rural scenery along County Route 55, so I'll post Part 3 tomorrow:

Morley-Potsdam Road - Part 1

I took these photos along Morley-Potsdam Road on my way home from the gun store. There was so much rural beauty and it was such a lovely day that I couldn't resist:

These appeared to be old barns, but they sure were kept up nicely:

An old farm house:

And an old barn with silo, feed bin and John Deere:

This home may not have been a farm house now, but I'll bet it began its life as one:

An abandoned barn, sitting far off the road. I had to use my zoom lens:

A magnificent barn which looked to me to be new, but built in the old style:

A classic old barn, silo and wrapped hay bales:

Farm house with multiple outbuildings in the back:

An old sugar house which didn't appear to be used anymore. But there was still more to see on Morley-Potsdam Road and I'll post Part 2 tomorrow:

St. Lawrence County Route 14 - Part 2

I was driving St. Lawrence County Route 14 and snapping pictures of the rural scenery. This lovely old barn certainly qualified as scenic:

Another North Country wrap-around porch:

This old farm looked historic and very busy - still actively farming:

Alas, this old barn was listing badly - and crammed full of stuff:

I didn't see any cows, but this looked like a dairy farm to me:

A home which looked almost colonial:

Farm home, barns and outbuildings which looked as if they might be living quarters, perhaps for the farm manager and employees?:

A spectacular old stone church, complete with bell tower and wrought iron fence:

A modern, prosperous looking farm:

Notice the big old maple trees here with sap buckets attached, as well as the sugar house with green roof:

A wonderful old barn with feed bin. I was almost to the gun store at this point, so I put away my camera and paid attention to finding my way:

Needham Road, West Stockholm New York - Part 1

The snow seemed to be taking forever to melt even though the temperatures were beginning to warm. But the day was so lovely that I decided to take a driving tour of another local, rural road just to see what I could see - and to share it with you. I turned onto Needham Road at a sign for Martin's Farm Market:

I'd stopped at the market last autumn to photograph pumpkins but never went inside. I didn't this time either, but I don't suppose they had anything at this time of year anyway:

I proceeded northward on Needham road until I reached Goodwin's Orchard:

Goodwin's Orchard was a classic old farm house and collection of barns:

And just beyond, I passed their trees, all of them protected from deer by high fencing. A black Lab ran alongside me inside the fence. When I stopped to snap a photo, he stopped also, and wagged his tail charmingly. The photo of him did not turn out well enough to use, but he was a friendly pooch:

Another farm with lots of outbuildings:

And tractor, backhoe, pickup, feed bins and silos:

It wasn't until I'd passed most of the farm's buildings that I saw their sign, informing me that they raised Holsteins. There was more to see on Needham Road, so I drove on - and will present Part 2 tomorrow:

Beautiful, Rural Bombay, New York - Part 1

I'd just finished a short winter hike with my four youngest dogs in the Brasher State Forest and was on my way to find the small town of Bombay, New York. I passed by some Amish farms where the corn was shocked (stacked in bundles). This was to keep the ears off the ground to allow them to dry for storage:

And right down the road was a large, modern farm with a sizable barn and silos:

And as I passed by this barn I discovered that it was bigger than I had at first realized:

And there were concrete bunker silos and feed bins:

The bunker silos only appeared about half full which surprised me that early in the winter. I never did figure out why:

And then, according to the sign, I arrived in the town of Bombay:

Bombay still looked pretty rural to me, a collection of pleasant homes clustered together on the County Road:

A wheelchair ramp and plywood moose - or were those reindeer left over from Christmas?

Comfortable, friendly looking homes:

The houses grew closer together as I apparently approached the center of town:

I didn't see any grand homes but lots of bungalows, modular homes and older, two story frame houses:

Most houses were built close to the road, a wise thing in snow country on a County road: