Thursday, September 20, 2007

From Four-Mile Creek





From Niagara Falls we went just a few miles north to 4-Mile Creek Campsite at Fort Niagara State Park. With a few yards walk through a line of trees we could reach the shore of Lake Ontario and see the skyline of Toronto across the lake. A few minutes after that picture, I turned toward the most colorful part of the sunset sky and took this picture – no Photoshopping in any way, just the way it came from the camera. Our daughter, liberal cynic that she is, suggested that it was the pollution from the industrialization of southern Ontario (and Toronto) that caused the beautiful colors . . .

On Monday Clara, Vicky and I hung out for a day while Terry rode his Kawasaki in to walk behind/under the Falls on the American side. He noted that it was not nearly as commercialized as on the Canadian side.

The next day we set out for the Finger Lakes region of New York state, noting that there were many wineries there, there was a world-renowned glass museum near there in Corning, NY and there was a great hike in Watkins Glen Gorge.

As we were tooling down the road we saw a country store with fresh fruit, so we had to stop. [The farm (and the store) had been in the same family for 200 years . . . only in New York . . . ]

Then, what to our wondering eyes should appear but "Billy Goat Mountain?" They had trained goats to go up to a high platform, recognize when you had put goat food in a can at one end of a long belt on two pulleys, and pull it up (by grabbing the belt with their teeth) to get the food. What's next?

Eventually we got to Watkins Glen State Park at the bottom of Seneca Lake – more on the Finger Lakes region in future posts.

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