I Love New York Travel

Hard to believe this was the yard three weeks ago (February 25, 2010). Almost all of it is gone now, having melted right into my basement. :-p The sump pump goes night and day. The yard is like a bog. But I am happy to see it go. I’m hoping the sun comes out someday, to dry us out.

We’re not out of the woods yet; we’ve had major snowfall in March and April before. So while I’m enjoying the thought of seeing green again very soon, I know better than to get my hopes up too much, too soon.

Still, I’m thinking of my next new flowerbed. Oh, and what vegetables shall I plant this year?! !

Pretty!

This is a photo taken from our trip to The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY. Volunteers at the museum spent hours pressing native Adirondack plants onto paper and covering them with laminate. The display is in a small reproduction of a hunter’s cabin. I love the photo with it’s luminous Golden lighting. I’m not a great photographer, so when a photo comes out nice, I do delight in it!

These two photos are pf the same lake– White Lake– in White Lake, NY. It’s a small town on Route 28 with some very nice views. I took the first photo two years ago, one summer; the second photo I took just last week. Boy, the wind whipped up right off that lake; it was brutal trying to stand there and snap a photo. The snow banks were quite high, and I had to slog through snow to get to the photo.

The lake is quite frozen. Snowmobile tracks covered the surface of the lake like a Plano cosmetic dentist had zipped over it with his tools. It gives me the shivers to think about that freezing cold wind! It seared through my coat and whipped my hair around, whew. COLD. I can’t wait until spring again.