…this post should be called Adirondacks – Day three, but as I am no longer in the Adirondacks, it seems odd to refer to today by that nomenclature. I certainly did wake up in the Adirondack mountains this morning. But I am currently in Montpelier, Vermont, having driven out of New York State, escaping by ferry across Lake Champlain.
I stopped first, this morning, at a local attraction in New York called “Natural Rock Bridge and Caves.” This description was just too much to pass up, and I pulled in. Run by a very nice family who have gone to great lengths indeed to make the place fun to spend an hour or more crawling over and under rocks and roots and branches. They really have done the place well, by nature, and have an extensive gift store that had lots of great and interesting stuff, like geodes (cut to order) and fossilized shark teeth and so on.
A second stop in the afternoon at Fort Ticonderoga was very interesting and well worth a stop-over as well. i hadn’t planned on stopping there, but I was very glad I did. It has connections to Quebec City, having first been built by th eFrench, then taken by the English, then the Americans, then the English again, then the Americans… it gets kind of confusing. Its been brilliantly restored (from what look like shards of building walls at the end of the 19thC) and was fun to wander through and check out the stuff they have found during various excavations (as well as imported stuff from elsewhere like muskets and so on) to show the period. The sheer number of cannon is crazy. I stopped counting at 25, but I think there might be 40 or so. It was very well defended, indeed. But fell nonetheless initially to the English, who moved heaven and earth to get cannon up the backside of a peak a helluva ways away and bombard the fort. Its hard to believe, standing on the ramparts today, that cannon shot from the remote peak could have ended up where I was standing. I was amazed, and suddenly had much greater respect for cannon fire than I had previously.
So, the photos from today:
You excel at people shots, but I have my eye on the shots of moving water over rocks. Love them.
There is a trick to get water shots like I’ve done, really “right” that I haven’t hit yet. But I’ll keep trying. I don’t quite yet see what I have in mind so far after each shot. Sometimes I think I’ve done it (like those water shots from Vancouver Island last year), but a little time afterward let’s me see more clearly that not yet, not yet…