October 15 The Erie Canal was built across New York state from the Hudson River at Albany to Lake Erie at Buffalo (1817-1825). It opened up the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and was the second longest canal (363 miles) in the world at that time. Many locks were built to raise the canal…
Fall Foliage / Photography / Photos / Travel
October 1, 2020 On October 1 – Oct. 27 we left Phoenix, AZ on a 5900 mile round trip to Western New York to visit relatives and photograph the fall foliage. We traveled in a Mercedes Sprinter Roadtrek Van to safely travel in a self contained unit. We did not have to interact with people…
October 20, 23, 27: This is the last foliage report from our October trip. We continued to have cloudy rainy weather, but decided since our trip was about over to try one more place. Mendon Ponds, a county park, southeast of Rochester, NY had brilliant leaf color, which was helped by the light rain that…
October 16 and 18. The first set of photos is from the ride down and back on Route 19 from Brockport to Belfast, NY. I am always partial to barns in my photos especially if they are painted red. This is probably because I grew up on a farm near Brockport, NY. I came across…
October 9-14, 2020 The first set of photos were taken near the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge and traveling on Rt 77 toward Lockport, NY. The following photos were taken during a ride with our niece Donna on some backroads near Glenwood and Springerville, NY. The above three photos are from the property of Donna and…
This will be the last posting on our trip to the Sierra Nevada in October 2019. This will feature four other places that did not have any fall color but are significant photo opportunities. I will give a brief preview of each of the four sites. The first is the Devil’s Postpile National Monument. We…
October 18-19, 2019 In Part 2 we ended at Topaz Lake. For this final part of the trip we left route 395 and headed toward Lake Tahoe on Route 89. There was not as much color as I was hoping for, but a lot of pine trees. In the next photo, we came across this…
October 16-19 We spent two nights in Lee Vining, CA which is considered the eastern gateway to Yosemite National Park. We did not go over the Tioga Pass road, but went up it partially to see if there were any color spots. At least as far as we went there was not much color. We…
