civilized ku # 2217-20 ~ how sweet it is

Sunset / Lake Ontario ~ Webster / Rochester, NY • click to embiggen
Dock and boats ~ Raquette Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Plastic chairs ~ Blue Mt. Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Utility poles / wire ~ Long Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenOur recent trip to Rochester began and ended with a couple pretty nice sunsets.

We encountered the first sunset on the evening of our arrival in Rochester. The sun set while we were having dinner with my brother and his wife-to-be on a restaurant deck on Lake Ontario. I was not the only one making pictures.

Sunsets 2-4 occurred during the evening of our drive home. While we never actually saw the sun set, the light emanating from it was warm and pleasant. As we drove from lake to lake - all the waters were still and calm - on the road through the park, SE > NE, I made the 3 pictures, presented above in chronological order (1-r).

One of the many things I enjoy about living in the Adirondack PARK was typified during the drive through the park - during the 3 hours (approx. 150 miles) it takes to get to our house after entering the SE edge of the park, we encountered as many cars as one could count on all of digits of my hands and feet. I wasn't actually counting but it's very possible I could have lost a hand or foot and still had enough digits to make the count. And, even though we passed through 10-12 villages and towns on the drive, there are only 4 traffic lights along the road.

Along the way, we stopped for dinner at the Seventh Lake House, where we dined on the canopied deck and enjoyed the great food and fresh air. I started with crab cakes and lobster bisque and followed that with the Triple Meatloaf -- veal, beef, and pork baked with herbs and spices wrapped in pastry and served with an onion sherry sauce. The wife shared the crab cakes, had her own lobster bisque, and a beef dish (the name of which I can't remember, sirlon tips over something with some kind of sauce). After a relaxing dinner, we continued on with our drive, during which we experienced the sunset scenario(s) as well as a number of other vistas and views.

And here's the thing, the 3 hour drive seems like a really pleasant 3 hour stroll through a park - a mini vacation of sorts. Not only are the landscape and the villages in the park easy on the eye, but the pace of everything is nothing like that experienced in the real world. It truly is home sweet home.