9/11 is not a day for humor really. I though you might enjoy some photos that would be restful. I took these during a hike Larry and I made in the state land forest at the top of our valley earlier this summer.
This road runs along the spot were we used to go camping and also where we got married.
This line of trees runs along what was once – about 100 years ago – a lane that led to a farm house.
One of the trees in what would have been the yard of that farmhouse.
Larry actually took this one – the remnants of a stone wall. It might have just been a retaining wall or possibly the foundation of a barn. Still in amazing shape.
The forest up there is dotted with reminders that it was once something very different – a fairly settled and populated community of farms. I can’t help wonder about the people who made their lives there, but bits of stone walls are all that remain.
Beautiful post!
What a perfect post for today, remnants of the population and all. Thank you for the restful view.
…As always, beautiful photos dlyn! Thank you for posting them on this sad and somber day…
…God bless…
What a lovely place. I love the rock wall. These kinds of places always have my mind wondering who lived here, what their lives were like and such. Nice.
Thank you for bringing us to this peaceful and quiet place with your photos.
We all need a place like this, not just for today but also at other times in our lives.
Bear((( )))
perfect post for a solemn day!
Arrived by the black box!
good to meet you
Lovely, evocative photos. I too arrived here via the black boxes widget.
Just Beautiful! Loved it!
Very serene and peaceful post. Perfect for today. There is something so soothing about trees, don’t you think? I’m here via the mysterious black box. :)
what a beautiful post for this solemn day!
Beautiful post. I used to do a lot of hiking and I too would encounter those remains of cabins, homes or walls in the midst of the forest. It is a very melancholy feeling, knowing that this is all that is left of someone who has gone before, and wondering what trace we will leave on our landscape for the generations to come.
Came by to see if something came in the mail today. Thinking of you on this quiet, somber day. Lovely post, Dlyn.
Those shots are beautiful. What a great place to get married. My grandparents had a little farm and a creek ran down below the barn. So many hours spent in the shade of the trees walking down the gravel road leading to the creek and on the limestone banks. Those walls go on for miles around where I live and it is amazing how long they stay in place. Just like time stands still except they get more beautiful with age. Like the patina on wood or silver.
how beautiful and peaceful!
serene, restful, lovely. Thanks.
Hello, Got here via the “addictive little sucker”. Glad I made the choices I did, I have read some of your posts, great sense of humor! I will be back.
photography is wonderful also.
That photo of the road going through the woods reminds me so much of a road we were on last week….we decided to take a day trip to the Stillwater Reservoir near Lowville….I swear I thought the RV was going to be demolished at the end of that dirt road….good thing no one was coming in the other direction! And yes, I agree with you, Upstate NY has it all, doesn’t it??
Wonderful photos you post and such a gentle eye behind the lens. I too wonder sho laid those stones with so much love.