Farm and farmer

Just some pretty pics of Lester's Flat.

1) Our empty (for now) pig shed with wildflowers planted by The Hub. When we first got here, I did not love seeing the silos and falling down barn(s) next door, but now that the neighbor is taking it all down, I will definitely miss them. (photo: TP)

2) One of Hub's 2 cornfields with wildflowers planted by Mother Nature. Lots of good sweet corn is ready right now! (photo: TP)

3) Foggy sunset. Weather here has been up and down temperatures—the colder creek is complaining about the hotter and humid air. Sour cherry tree in the front, ripening elderberries further back, goldenrod just starting to turn golden. (photo: KP)

4) Farmer Tim (The Hub) taking a break at the "bus stop". He loves his metal bench in the back 40. Momma deer and the 2 fawns hang out there as well. We have not yet had a bus come by. (photo: obviously KP)

Music, Shakespeare, and AI gets it wrong again

Fast Friends bravely played at the Northway Hop House with a giant canoe hanging over their heads. 

The Ying Quartet were the final performers in the Cooperstown Summer Music concert series.

Our good friend Mark Murphy, frequent star of the local Coffee House, played a comically sad Jaques in a performance of The Bard of Avon's As You Like It.

The Google AI version of the story: 

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare written around 1959–1600. It follows heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution into the Forest of Arden, disguising herself as a man named Ganymede, where she reunites with her banished father and tests her lover Orlando.

Rosalind (Ganymede) and Jaques