Trails and Diner Adventures in New York

Sometimes you need to leave work before the sun sets. 

Luckily, our new Canadian friends taught us how to play Crokinole, and it is super fun!

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Tasty Mallard

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It isn't a real party until there is a blow dart competition. ​

Bathroom art is important. 

The Cayuga trail blazes are works of art. Below, old and new beaver sign. There is nothing for scale, but that Cottonwood is one of the largest I've seen. 

Some kind of Leopard frog

Passiflora skeletons are the prettiest. 

A stop at our local brewery, Hopshire, for some sunset behind oak. 

Sunday brunch at Classic Chef's in Watkins Glen before some chilly, but sunny hiking. This place was amazing!!! There were people eating old school tall dish sundays, rice pudding, BLTs and dressed up! The lady behind us had definitely had her hair done and her most exquisite clip on earrings adorning her ears. It was like a little time capsule with perfect home fries, golden glittered formica tables and chunky white coffee mugs. I love diners! 

You can even see a waterfall from the diner!

Check out these sweet bathroom tiles!

​Below is a hike in Watkins Glen State Park. The lower trail is closed due to its state of ice, but the upper trail had great views, hemlock, sunshine, flocks of birds, and we finished up at an area with a lot of cattail and a hemlock hammock tree. It was a grand adventure. 

And then, the Superbowl, biologist style, with a a little hedgehog friend at half time.