Pics. 3/28 Central NY.

Pics were taken yesterday afternoon across the Mowhalk Valley of Central NY., from the side road that I live on, about 5 miles north of me. The pic start facing westerly and ending easterly, from the south side of the valley. The pics. that I posted in the previous post are taken in the Adirondacks on the other side of the valley today. We have 3 distinct climates within eye site in these pics. The valley is generally 2-3 weeks ahead if us on the southern rim and the Adirondacks on the northern rim are another week behind us and have a growing season that can be a mounth less than us, however we on the south side usually have a later growing season than both the valley and the north country. Micro Climates abound in the area, as well as soil types. Here where I live we have some of the best soil types in the country, lying on a limestone base. On the south side of the valley we have some of the best soilin the country, Honyway loam on limestone base. Just to the north dropping down into the valley, loam turnes to fertil, but very tepremental clay, which will make or break a farmer, season to season. Up out of the valley on the northern side the soil turns from gravel, to loam,like ours, to sand with a granite base with massive outcropings, which extends north to the St. Lawerence Valley. CNY is a truely unique agricultural area composed of many diversified micro agricultural enviroments. where anything from vegies to grapes and apples thrive, to where only grass hay can be grown.
The Mohawk Valley was the birth place of the American Industrial Revolution. "Clinton's Ditch", "The Erie Canal" and the present Mohawk Barge Canal", and the mill towns along this valley and its tributarys, manufactured equipment and necessities such as textiles and leather goods, plus lumber and linked the port of NYC to the cities on the great lakes. It's a discrace today to travel in this valley to day and see the abandoned mills, and relicks of the Steam Era, and the demise of agriculture in this area. I have the memories, but I have no optimism for the future in this area. This valley is designated for the development of high speed rail by our "Savior" in Washington, but what are we going to transport on this rail system. It sure ain't going to be products made in NY or this country for that mater.
Sorry for the double pic. The one in the middle didn't upload.

Are you on rt 20. Have went down through there many times.

It's a shame the way the U.S. is gone by the way . Making it profitable for business to leave the country and our taxes supplement them for doing it is a problem . so why do we keep electing people who are not in our interest

so why do we keep electing people who are not in our interest

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You can only elect the people that run for office. Sure you can write someone in but you'd need everyone to cooperate and vote for that write-in. Not gonna happen. There are too many mindless sheep who vote for the best looking person, or who automatically vote for the incumbent.

NOBODY is going to vote for anyone who tells them they have to sacrifice for the good of the nation, especially if they're already poor and/or on government assistance.

Anyway, the government has nothing to do with this. This is all on the free enterprise system.

Even if the government took away all the environmental protection laws and waived all taxes, companies would STILL send the jobs to other countries because it's STILL cheaper to do that than stay here.

Taxes, EPA, pensions, and our over-bloated salary requirements are only convenient excuses that corporations use to hide the fact that they're simply greedy.

I know that workers at one plant her in Michigan were making $12 - $15 per hour, no pension, and lost their jobs to Mexico. Even after the state offered to build their employer, Electrolux, a new plant, for free. And the mexicans are mad at the chinese for taking jobs from them.....

Can you see the Hardscrabble windmill project from there? I live just to the left of the northern most windmill.