Chapter 2 - Amazing Peru Street, In The Town Of Lawrence, New York

I continued on my driving tour of Peru Street, passing more Amish farms (note the white house, red barns and clothesline with black clothes):

This Amish farm had a spectacular barn and lots of hand painted signs, selling hand woven baskets and other items:

This sign advertised lumber, and I could see that they also sold firewood. The piles of huge logs piled quite high, caused me to wonder if they'd hired neighbors to bring them out of the woods:

This was not an Amish farm, I didn't think, though it was surrounded by them:

This was an Amish farm, as evidenced by the white house, chimney pipes, board and batten siding - and the ubiquitous clothesline:

But then I seemed to pass out of Amish territory and into a settlement of "English," or non-Amish, such as myself:

I've searched the internet for an explanation of the "Deno Homestead" but couldn't find anything. My guess is that it was a tree farm willed to the state and currently managed by the Department of Environmental Conservation. The state does have tree farms, where they raise seedlings for distribution in the cause of conservation, but I could find no reference to this site:

A nifty mobile home, set way back behind the trees:

A modern ranch home, also set back into the trees:

This home sat up on a hill:

I passed by more farm fields, some of which had old farm equipment resting in the snow:

And a rather spectacular barn and silo, all surrounded by fields of ice. But I was only about halfway along Peru Street, so there was more to see. I'll post Chapter 3 tomorrow:

Chapter 1 - Amazing Peru Street, In The Town Of Lawrence, New York

We'd suffered through so much miserable weather that when a minor January thaw hit, I jumped in the car and headed out to Peru Street, a rural road in the town of Lawrence. It was time for a driving tour. I was surprised that the first house on the road was so large, modern and expensive:

But mostly, Peru Street was rural, with hay fields covered by crusty snow and ice. There were grooves through the snow made animals. My fields had them also, but I had no idea what sort of animal made them - something with short legs, by the look of things:

I slowed to a stop to photograph this attractive log cabin home, but the two Malamutes tied out front were not pleased to see me. I snapped a quick photo and hurried on my way:

This looked to me like a gingerbread house. Or maybe I should ask why everything reminds me of food:

A mobile home with a nice deck, a big spruce tree and two play houses, one of which, the one on stilts, was just about the nicest play house I'd ever seen:

The road also took me through forests:

And past Amish corn fields, filled with corn shocks:

And there was a long section of the road with one Amish farm after another. This one, I thought, was particularly beautiful from a distance. I noticed the traditional white house and red barns. But they'd added a green barn also, the barn color which once predominated in this area:

I slowed down for a closer look as I passed by the front of the above farm:

And enlarged the center of the photo so you could see the buggy, dinner bell and clothesline:

Another Amish farm (note the clothesline), but this one had some large farm equipment. My guess was that a neighbor was doing work for them:

I wasn't sure this was an Amish farm until a woman, all clad in black, walked out the barn door with her horse. You can see both of them between the barn and the house. Notice the electric lines. They may be merely passing over the property or these may be Amish who are allowed electricity in the barn (though never in the house). Peru Street was long and fascinating, so I kept driving. I'll post Chapter 2 tomorrow: