The Family Farm
As I often do when traveling through and near Philadelphia, NY, I decided to check in on the dairy farm, formerly owned and operated by my Grandparents, Beatrice and Merrill Tryon. They had moved away many years ago and as the years passed since that time, the once-loved and meticulously maintained farm gradually declined. Each trip I make past the farm floods me with wonderful memories and simultaneously breaks my heart to see what now remains. This particular visit was especially painful.
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It doesn’t require a journey of many miles to discover interesting places and sights. And a journey on the Stratoliner is always a mental health boost.
This afternoon’s Upstate NY journey included Northern Oswego County and Southern Jefferson County. An assortment of “Pavement Ends” signs forced several course corrections, making the experience even more interesting.
Sweet Lorraine
Road Worthy
One of those places that randomly shows up along the random path that was chosen on a random day for the purpose of going out to see the world.
A Local Landmark (4 images, 1 video)
For more than 50 years, I have driven, ridden, and walked across this thing and wandered the shoreline in its shade. Certainly, I have captured many pictures of this location, but this is the first time this bridge and the drone were in the same place at the same time!
I pulled over along the road and spent a few minutes capturing the bridge and the surrounding area from the air.
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Happy In The Valley
Road Work Selfies (2 images)
In-between (2 images)
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Between the beauty of the Fall and Winter seasons in Upstate, New York, there is a time of sparseness. The leaves have fallen and have been blown into dense piles against unmovable objects. The sun remains low in the sky and the temperatures are equally shallow. Summer colors have all faded down to variations of brown and grey. Wind becomes common and night begins far too soon.
It is also a time between the relaxed state of Summer and the effort-laden experience of Winter. Gradually every trip outdoors requires increasingly more clothes and coats, and extra time to pull frost off the car windows and bring its interior temperature into a comfortable range. The motorcycles have become nothing more than large objects to walk around and climb over inside the garage.
It also is a time of transitioning the way I capture photographs. Finding vantage points behind things that block the wind or using the relative comfort of the car become more common experiences. Longer lenses and working the gear with gloves are clear signs of this annual period of change.
Thoughts about composition start shifting away from being able to capture images from any location down to simply the things that can be observed from the continually decreasing quantity of vantage points. And as the snowbanks increase, pulling to the side of the road to capture a moment goes from being something common to being completely impossible and quite dangerous.
Pole Dancer Playground (2 images)
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We landed in the Lanard-Hornbrook County Park while on a short side-trip to avoid the main highways of Pennsylvania. These images were captured at the boat launch area.
As we pulled out of the park driveway, we observed some rather interesting neighbors living across the street from the park entrance. My camera wasn’t quickly available to include their photos too, but the title of this post captures the thought that ran through my head in that moment.