FINGER LAKES WINE TOUR & CYMRU

On a visit to my Mom's house in Geneva, NY we went on down the farside of Seneca Lake and found this little gem of a letterbox in an old church cemetery. Scott and I love exploring cemeteries as I mentioned in prior posts. There were two stamps and they were hand carved and very nice. It was just a perfect Saturday afternoon. The scenery was just stunning and it made my heart proud to be able to say that I am from the Finger Lakes region.

The next day after church we took a ride over the hill to Nelson and did another old church with a sweet old cemetery. This is the Welch church in Nelson, NY. It only has summer services as they do not heat the building during the winter months. Scott and I have wanted to go there, but never did. Some of the grave stones were in Welch.

Another beautiful day! The sky is perfect and the air was so sweet smelling.

SWEET VIDALIA ONION AND GREEN ZUCCHINI SQUASH

Could us mothers have asked for a nicer day? I really could have letterboxed in the woods all day long, but ...... well, I had other things I wanted/needed to do. These boxes (the two we did and we "left" two there to do another time) are in a little known Madison County historical park site called Nichols Pond. The planter of the boxes gives a lot of nice history about the area in their clue. These signs should give you a quick insight to how historic the area is:

Nichols Pond is located among the wonderful windmills of Fenner Wind Farm and you can see one through the trees in this photo, which is right where one box is hiding.

When the planter talks about the grain pits the Indians created - you can actually still see them.

Checking out all the sunshine and green??????? My fave colors!

OXBOW ROAD FALLS PARK

Scott and I have lived 5 miles from this park and have only been here once. When our children were toddlers. Wow, it is so very nice now with well groomed trails and just breath-taking views!

Everything has greened out nicely and the walk down the trail was just filled with new growth and my favorite color - green!

I happened to look UP and got this view - wow, my second favorite color!

The whole time we are walking the path there was this lovely smell. I traced it to these little flowers. The honey bees loved their smell too!

Walked along quietly running little streams, dabbled with sunlight.

The lboxes were hidden near the bridges we crossed. And all on the forest floor bed were newly "hatched" white trilliums.

Perfect day for letterboxing!

CANAL - BABY BARRUS

Another LB near the Erie Canal. We were once again out of time at the very end of a busy day and we needed a quick find. This was near the Erie Canal Boat landing site in Chittenango, NY. The walk was quick, it was busy on the path but we were able to get a break. The stamp was a tiny store bought stamp - almost like a flea but not quite. I took a few photos of the surrounding buildings of interest.

This is an old factory of some kind that has long been left to crumble and look totally in need of being tore down. Some of its exterior show the construction type from the era that it was built.

This building use to host field trips and canal open house events. They have since built a nicer facility and I am not sure what they use it for now.

This is a display of a dissected canal boat from different levels and angles. I have ridden on an actual restored canal boat and it was very cool. Those must have been some exciting days!