What beautiful country this is. Lush green after a summer of plenty of rain and Irene just a day or two past. And especially spectacular views. My limited ability to capture this on a camera doesn't do justice to this country. I'll include some pictures here just because I took them. But they're not great.
The big joy of being here is that I get to hang out with my friend Annika. We've been meeting up in many places: We met in Ann Arbor and traveled to and from Chicago where we've looked each other up a number of times. We even met up in Amsterdam for a few days and now in Delhi, NY. It's great to see that she's doing well after a really tough time.
I got there on Sunday night, and on Monday we went driving around. No particular destination, other than looking at the beatiful country on a gorgeous sunny and cool day. Villages and towns around here like to claim their name to fame on their signs: We went through Bainbridge, NY that said it is "the home of Elmers Glue". The next town over claimed to have "the best tasting water in New York State" while Unadilla, NY has signs all over the village saying it is home to "Boy Scout Troop # 1" in the US. Well, we didn't sniff the glue or taste the water and we didn't see any of the Boy Souts. We did notice (because we were hungry) that we couldn't find any eatery that appealed to us.
I've been coming to upstate NY for a long time, but the latest recession seems to have done away with they two estavblishments any village there was able to sustain: A Diner and a Bar. Many of those towns, pretty as they are, don't seem to be able to support those anymore. A said state of affairs if you ask me. We then decided not to go visit the Baseball Hall of Fame, although Cooperstown, which houses that fine Hall, is not too far away.
All in all, a wonderful day, not because of what we did, but because we got to hang out without any particular agenda.
The pictures are around the house of a friend of Annika's and where she stays a lot. It's walls are made of straw and it's structure is one of a pole barn. It's a very nice place. It looks out at a mountain and in the back is a meadow with horses. The horses were too far away to see on the picture.
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