This was our final stop, after Cooperstown, before heading back to Montreal. We stayed overnight in the farmhouse, visiting someone dear to us, who served us white wine and cheeses and huge pickled capers and olives in the garden, and a delicious dinner afterward, and then talked until we were all falling asleep. The next morning we got up and ate the breakfast I've already shown you. Then we went on a walk to see the ancestors' resting places, the basil and tomatoes, the barn filled with new hay, the old tractor and the young workhorses -- and finally, reluctantly, headed back up the Northway in the Hudson Valley and along Lake George and Lake Champlain, the long and beautiful waterway that lies between the Adirondacks of New York and the Green Mountains of Vermont.
I love the 4th photo!
Posted by: Dave | July 25, 2011 at 10:59 PM
beautiful!
did you paint any water colours?
Posted by: Mouse | July 26, 2011 at 01:45 PM
Yes, I like the echinops!
And the first one has that green glass that looks just like watercolors, so no wonder you got that question!
Posted by: marly youmans | July 26, 2011 at 02:31 PM
Dave, thanks! I was stunned by the number of bees -- a good thing. The local honey is great there, too.
Hi Mouse...unfortunately not. It's too hard when you're visiting family and they want to see YOU, not your back, sitting over your drawing pad or watercolor paper!
Good point, Marly!
Posted by: Beth | July 26, 2011 at 09:57 PM
in the Hudson Valley and along Lake George and Lake Champlain, the long and beautiful waterway that lies between the Adirondacks of New York and the Green Mountains of Vermont.
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