You go out for a Sunday drive and complete strangers step up to your car to chat. We decided to try for duck photos, and although the best I could do was a couple of mallards in a ditch, we met so many nice people and saw so many pretty places that I was just delighted. Who needs ducks?
First we pulled over at the mystery duck spot where the beaver dam is and an elder fella stopped to invite us to hunt ducks on his land if we wished. It isn't duck season anyhow, but he was real disappointed to see the camera rather than something more lethal. I guess mostly he wanted to talk to someone about how the beaver dam on someone else's land had flooded forty acres on him and he wasn't too happy about it.
A blurry shot of the gorge (but didn't the bushes come out nice?) Still you can get a sense of how far down it is.We chatted for a few minutes until another car came along and we had to get out of the way. Then we stopped to try to get pictures of this gorge. We were across the road from a house and the folks there saw us and came out to the car. Rather than chase us away, as we expected, they brought their digital camera to show us the pictures they had taken earlier in the day, after climbing down INTO the gorge. My photos do not give you the sense of how steep this is, but believe me, you could not pay me enough to climb down or back up. They were really friendly, just plain nice folks and we enjoyed chatting with them and seeing their excellent pictures...(much better than mine).
Photo by mom
Photo by AlanIt was the same everywhere we went, from stopping at Stewart's for coffee and having bystanders in the parking lot joking around with us, to folks in backyards waving as we meandered by taking pictures out the windows of the car. This is neither the South nor the Midwest.
This is NY.
Such friendliness is a wonderful and rare phenomenon here in the state that spawned New York City. It has REALLY been a long winter and I think folks are just plain sick of it and glad to share a warm, sunny delicious day like this.
And right now I am going outside to help Alan pull off some plastic mulch and reclaim some ground to plant beets and lettuce. See ya later.
Alan just had to take a picture of this...could it be that the General Lee has come north to hibernate, or perhaps to nest and lay eggs?
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ReplyDeleteI happen to think you take a pretty good picture and these are pretty good examples!
Now isn't that a perfect day or what? Perfectly unknown people sharing perfectly good moments. That has got to be a smile maker for sure.
Climbing down into something that you haven't climbed out of before is probably not a wise choice.
As for General Lee, he's missing his number. Or is he undercover?
Thanks for taking me on a Sunday drive. Great pictures.
ReplyDeleteGads, it's great to get out and mess around after being cooped up for a winter.
ReplyDeleteAs for the General Lee - it was a Dodge Charger and the car in the pic is a Ford Mustang - but it's pretty close to the right color!
Sounds and looks like you got a great day off.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the snow is gone too.
Hopefully, spring is on its way.
What a nice day!
ReplyDeleteSteve, thanks..it really was nice. We used to do such things almost every Sunday, but we haven't in years. It was such a pretty day, although not much green yet.
ReplyDeleteLinda, thanks for riding along and thanks for your kind words
Jeffro, I'll take your word. I took the kid's word on the car, not having watched TV much. He loves it though. lol
Nita, it was nice, really nice. Had to milk on both ends, of course, but with the cows on hay and grain instead of corn and haylage, feeding only takes a few minutes, which frees up a lot of time for other stuff. Still some snow in the late spots and on the mountains, but mostly it is gone
Cubby, it was great! Thanks
TC! You are so right! People are giddy with delight to be putting that winter to rest.
ReplyDeleteI had to smile at your 'in focus' bushes. That's the problem with these auto-focus cameras. They can't read our minds. (I think there's some way to focus it manually, but I'm too lazy to read the manual:0)
Cathy, actually I had it on manual focus but the sun was so bright I couldn't see what I was doing...which I will take any day as it is so nice to see the sun. lol
ReplyDeleteOh you clever kid. OK. That does it! Where is that danged manual?
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