More of Our New England Trip

88 degrees, bright sunshine near Ovid, NY

This was this morning about 7 amn

This is now at 5:15 pm EDST






Found it easy to sleep in this morning.  Then got a 30 lb. bottle of propane and a few groceries at two different Amish stores in this area.

Since have a bit of time......going to back track and pick up some photos.  These are of John and Daryl Crosby's place in St. Catherine, Ontario.  They are only a few miles from Niagara Falls, ON.  

 They have not a super big back yard, but have really got a lot of growing trees, bushes, flowers and vegetables.

 It is a very pretty yard, and productive for vegetables, too.

They grow several vegetables, including lettuce we ate more than once, in these two gutters--with minimal  soil.








These tomatoes were so plentiful and heavy that one of the pots tipped.  They were close to being eaten.

Bill & Therese Van Oenen live at Lowbanks, ON which is just west of Buffalo, New York where the Niagara River runs out of Lake Erie north over Niagara Falls and in to Lake Ontario.

They showed us several lift bridges over the Niagara River.

We saw a delightful sunset.

 Bill & Theresa's house is pretty new and they have done some finishing work to it since moving in a few years ago.

Lynn, Bill & Theresa -- just before we were to pull out from their place. 








Below is picture from front of their house, flowerbed and pond with cat tails--lots of landscaping done.

And, talking about gardens, Harold and Ernistine Malone sure work a lot on their garden.

 They live in Mendon, NY and have flowers as well as a lot of vegetable garden.

Well, will try to report in this weekend from Watertown, NY -- at the east end of Lake Ontario.

Till then, Lynn

Visit to Corning Museum of Glass

76º near Ovid, New York at 9:00 PM EDST Wednesday, as I start this.

Drove 60 some miles south and a little west to Corning, New York today and spent much of the day at the Corning Museum of Glass

Guess art is in the mind of who made it.... these are drinking glasses set on clear glass shelves.  Some of the glasses are colored----these are to be trees.

These are straight sheets of glass, but there is small amount of paint on them in the upper portion to look like a cloud.

And, this, friends, is a glass tire.

Bars of layered glass pressed together into sticks and then piled up.

Highly praised work of art.  Never could figure it out.

Room with "art" by glass.  T

 here were literally dozens of rooms with historic glass from around the world.          

Left-a rabbit?









                  Below
Lady was making a fish out of two sticks of glass.

Just starting to make a vase -- glob of molten glass at 2100 degrees F.

Seen from above via camera to TV.

 One of the stages where full set of furnaces and demonstrations of glass blowing where staged.

Lady whirling and starting vase. 

Creating place where it will later be disconnected from her blow-stick.

 Shaping it.

Adding glob of new glass to form base

Shaping the base.


We watched 5 or 6 different glass-blowing demonstrations.  All the ovens here are electric fired, which are the only ones like them in the world.  Natural gas is the normal power for the ovens.

We went downtown - maybe 6 blocks from the Museum - and shopped at the Corning Outlet Store.


A good day.  And the drive between two of the finger lakes, going south was really nice.  The hills (mountains) are some 2,000 feet high between the lakes and you cross them and a lot of up-and-down.  We went on county roads and got to see lot of farm land - beans and corn, as well as lots of vineyards and some cabbage, onions and other truck gardening.  This is a beautiful area.  As I write this at 6:42 AM ESDT rain is moving in.  We are going to loll around this morning and look this local area over after lunch when the rain is to move out of the area.
Tomorrow we go north to Watertown, NY and will be parked for the weekend in driveway of Katie (Runyon) Johnston and visit with her and her family.  Monday we plan to move over east a little over a hundred miles to Tupper Lake which is in the Adirondack State Park.  Plan to visit the Wild Center (Click Here) 
Later, Lynn

In the Finger Lakes area of New York State

near Ovid, NY - 78º at 7:45 pm EDST

Art Company we walked by after getting off the Erie Canal Cruise - in Lockport, New York.

Drove through Gasport, NY on way back to our camp.  Was going to go on north and west to the edge of New York state to Old Fort Niagara (Click Here) but was spent.  Had driven to a recommended Farmers Market  Becker Farms (Click Here)  but with the heat and dry they have had, did not have too many vegetables.

Today we left the campground north of Gasport, NY and drove east and south, through edge of Rochester, NY then south to Mendon, NY and had nice visit with Harold and Ernestine Malone.  They were unable to come to Kenwood last year due to her sister's health......and are kind of in a hold pattern now for the same reason.  They will come down if possible.

We then drove east and a little south to the center of the Finger Lakes area and are in a campground for the next three nights near Ovid, NY.

Intending to look around this area, go to Corning, NY, and possibly to Letchworth Park considered to be the "Grand Canyon of the East" before heading to Watertown, NY for the weekend.

Later, Lynn

Back on US Soil

We are north of Gasport, NY - 81 degrees at 11 am - expected high 88 degrees.

Am set up outside with printer and computer.  (Can print out some card statements to check with receipts)

We were on the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge an hour and a half waiting to get through customs.  Was a breeze when we go there, just questions and we were on our way.

We arrived at Daryl & John Crosby's place in St. Catherine, Ontario last Friday about noon. They showed us much of the Niagara, Ontario area.  They are pictured with us at left.

We had come from Bill & Theresa VanOwen only about 30 mile south at Lowbanks, Ontario.  Had spent one night at their place.  They showed us much of the area, including the farm they used to have.
They are at left - when we were looking around.





Well, I am running out of time -- must go to get on a Cruise of the Erie Canal at Lockport Locks which is not too far from us.

Getting on the boat.

In one of the two locks that we went thru, both up and down.  Something over 50 feet total.

One of the street bridges that lifted out of our way.

One of the points we went by on the Erie Canal.

Off tomorrow to Mendon, NY where we will lunch with Harold and Ernastine Malone and then will spend three nights at an RV place on Cayuga Lake near Ovid, New York before spending the weekend with Phyllis' cousin Katie (Runyon) Johnston in Watertown, New York.  A nice cool 67 degrees here north of Gasport, NY as I write this at 10:30 pm EDST
Later, Lynn