Beyond Chataqua

At the end of Karen's adventures in Chautauqua, I picked her up on the way to see Keith and Sarah in Ithaca.  We stayed for nearly a week this time, without much of an agenda.  We just went to spend time and visit.  That is exactly what we did. 

 

Indy found the perfect spot to survey her domain.  It's one of two teepee structures Keith made for his beans and snap peas which Indy also took a liking to.

 

 
We spent a morning at the Cornell Plantation.  There doesn't appear to be a shortage of honeybees in this area.
 

 
You've heard the term snake in the grass, well how about snake In the shrub!
 

 

Karen by the shrub...not the one with the snake...

 

 

A garden orb weaver that has taken up residence outside Keith and Sarah's front door.

 

 
One evening we went down to a stream near Brookton Market and Keith went for a swim while the rest of us waded in and out.  Keith found a scoured out area beneath a waterfall to have some fun.
 

 

 

 
Smoochin!
 

 

Bathing beauties.

 

 

 
Saturday morning we all, including Jenn, Bob and Zhora went to the Cayuga Nature Center which among other things has a large tree house built (with supervision I assume) by the graduating class of 2000 at Ithaca High School.
 

 

 

 

This is the main building at the nature center which was built in the 1930's by the WPA as a preventorium for children with signs of tuberculosis.  It closed sometime after WW II and the nature center was opened on the site about 30 years ago.