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An extraordinary find

March 2, 2009 • art • children • country life • country living • culture • dogs • economy • faith • family • farm • farm life • friends • friendship • health • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • snow • spirituality • thoughts

You and I, we are the ordinary man and woman on Planet Earth. We are out here living our lives and doing a few good things, making a living, supporting our families, doing laundry, cooking a meal, working the land, whatever. We are the ordinary, and it is us, the you-me-and-we of us that is the extraordinary that mankind has to offer.

Taking in Upstate Western New York

September 26, 2007 • Adirondack Mountains • Adirondack Museum • Adirondacks • agriculture • apples • art • autumn colors • blogging • Blue Mountain Lake • children's sweaters • country life • country living • dating • faith • family • farm • farming • food • free knitting patterns • knitting • love • marriage • photography • recipes • relationships • romance • travel • Upstate New York • wooden boats • yarn

Last weekend my husband and I took a three-day road trip exploring the Thousand Islands area of New York, the Adirondack Mountains, and a drive back home via Route 67 from Saratoga Springs going west toward the Buffalo/Rochester area. Our first day out, we left before dawn on Friday morning and arrived in Clayton, New York up in the Thousand Islands area before noon. We both love the feeling of being up and out on the road at early morning dark and through the various, sometimes misty, stages of dawn while much of the world is still asleep. There is...