Days Mill Road, Hopkinton NY - Part 3

I was approaching the end of my driving tour of Days Mill Road (see also Parts 1 and 2, posted previously), and stopped at this country home with outbuildings:

There was a bird house in the top of that old tree and a tire swing hanging below. The outbuilding on the right was in the style which always causes me to think it was once the main residence on this farm:

Lots of firewood and a hay field:

An old style country home:

This wonderful barn had an orange and white cat grooming itself in the open hayloft door. If you click to enlarge the picture, you can see it:

A large, well maintained home with an enclosed porch and several outbuildings:

A tiny cottage behind the trees, possibly someone's weekend getaway:

New England Asters and Goldenrod between the road and the forest:

Tall Red Pines along the road:

A large and elaborate home in a woodsy style, with a brook right behind it:

I turned off of Days Mill Road onto the state road, which was lined with corn fields:

And across from the corn fields were old apple trees, apparently untended and dropping their copious fruit all over the ground. It was all wondrous autumn scenery. But this was the end of my driving tour and I had dogs at home who were anxious for me to return. I put my camera away and headed homeward:

West Cotter Road In The Town Of Brasher, New York

A friend was searching the internet for small farms for sale, so I did a quick internet search for this area. I learned of a 17 acre farm in the nearby town of Brasher and I had free time, so - why not? I drove to West Cotter Road to take a look, turning it into a driving tour at the same time. This road was surrounded by Brasher State Forest and most of the homes were set back into the trees:

The homes tended to be smaller and spaced far apart, always set back into the forest:

And then, up ahead, I saw the barns of the home which was for sale. They certainly were impressive:

This was the home. It, the complex of barns and 17 acres were for sale for $89,000. Here's the website address, assuming it hasn't sold by the time you read this:
Small Farm For Sale

I continued driving, and found West Cotter to be an entirely pleasant, scenic road:

The road roughly follows the Deer River and, pretty soon, the river meandered right up alongside the road. It was quite pretty:

The houses became smaller and closer together along the river's edge:

In fact, I think they were not year 'round homes but vacation cottages, though one can never tell. They may have been a mixture of both:

But there were other homes on the road:

There were no other farms or farm fields along West Cotter Road, though there were more homes:

I passed by another stretch of the Deer River:

West Cotter Road is a dead end, though it branches at the end into two smaller, dead end roads. The other two roads were too short and had too few homes for a blog post, so I turned around and drove back to the county road where I'd begun. There was an East Cotter Road on the other side of the county road, but it turned out to be only two tire tracks through the forest: