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Taken while we were picking raspberries at Yonder Farms in Kinderhook, NY. For wonderful photos of other people's skies, visit Skywatch Friday!
Believe it or not, there's a local farm still picking raspberries! Until the frost kills the plants, raspberries will still grow on certain varieties, and they may taste better now than in June. Not because they're really any sweeter, but because finding even one raspberry in October seems like such a treat!
Commercial buildings often have seasonal flowers in their landscaping. These are hardy mums. They'll probably bloom until we get a hard frost, maybe as long as a month. We've already had temperatures dipping to just above freezing; you wake up and have to scrape the frost of the car windshield but the tougher plants are OK.
Another shot from last week's Art Bike festival. There was food, there were people and there were motorcycles. There was a band playing, too - heavy rock. A very nice way to spend a few hours.
No, not an angry tax protest. Defiant is the name of this motorcycle! Last week, Schenectady hosted an Art Bike Festival, showcasing dozens of beautiful, hand made motorcycles like this one. State Street was closed for several blocks to allow for the crowd and for the motorcycles - there were hundreds of bikes there and what seemed like thousands of people. It was great to see so many people walking around downtown.
I live in a section of the city called Vale. Actually, the Vale neighbourhood is a thin slice between State Street and Vale Cemetery - it's so thin that we're generally lumped together with Hamilton Hill by everyone else in the city.
As long as I'm thinking about local establishments, I thought I'd show Avon Market. Avon is an old fashioned meat market. The kind of place nestled in a residential section of the city, where people can walk down the street, pick up their food and walk home. Not many of these places left any more - it's all major supermarket chains like Hannaford and Price Chopper. Sure, the big chains have a meat counter and they'll even cut your meat to order if you ask them to, but Avon will do their best to order what you want. They recognise us on sight and they never fail to give the little one a slice of cheese or pepperoni.
