Excursions

We were busy Sunday - the farmer's market, the library, one grocery, dinner at a park, another grocery. I only took pictures of the park, though. The park, of course, being John Boyd Thacher State Park in the Helderberg Escarpment.

It doesn't look like much on the satellite view in Google Maps:

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But if you click over to terrain view, it's much more dramatic:

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(So the drop in places is over 450 feet.)

Looking towards downtown Albany, NY:

My cute little car:

"Violators will be prosecuted" - they neglect to mention "if they're still alive"

Last time I got a bunch of pictures of the escarpment by the overlook, but this time we went walking, and found: (Minelot Falls)

Over there is where I took the previous picture:

There's a little bridge across the creek, and this is what you see looking uphill:

This is downhill:


The state is talking about closing the park as part of the budget cuts.