The Sunday hike, Finger Lakes Trail

I took the camera along on our Sunday walk. The Finger Lakes region has so many trails. It is easy to find one that is a distance appropriate for the time you have available. The white blazes indicate the Finger Lakes Trail system.


The trail we chose bordered Finger Lakes Land Trust land.



The trail guide we were using was published around 1992 and cited a view at this point. Well...trees grow a lot in 14 years...no valley view, but still beautiful.



Mmmmmmm...snack time.



All of this region was former farmstead. Day lilies grew in swaths where the old farmhouse likely once stood, and Sweet William dotted the forest floor.




And there are the ever-present stone walls.



And old roads:


Mark had packed lunch, but the forest was quite full of deerflies and I wasn't keen on eating on the back of the hatchback, so we mulled over where to stop for a picnic. There are lots of options in Ithaca, but we were packing alcohol. Suddenly we realized we were driving right by a winery I hadn't yet visited. So we stopped at Six Mile Creek Vineyard for a tasting ($1), bought a bottle of their wine, and wandered down to their pond.



And walked over to the vineyard:



Ah, relaxation. We can't afford to really do "vacations" but since we live in beautiful rural NYS, a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine, and thou, are more than enough.




Oh, yeah, and all that yummy processed packaged food stuff. Well, nobody's perfect.