If I were ever going to live in the USA again, it would have to be in Upstate New York. There's something about the mountains that connects with something inside of me that makes me feel "ahhh, home..."

Our time in this bit of the world is coming to end today, so there was one last walk up to the top of the mountain, several long last looks over the valleys and towards the mountain ranges in the distance, which seem to hold some kind of magic, as if there are infinite possibilities just a bit out of reach.

Yesterday we had the treat of seeing a woodpecker do his stuff and here he is, pecking away at a birch tree.

The sunset over the lake was a solid A+.