Driving Upstate

This may be my least "photographic' photograph.  The reason I give you is no excuse, I think.  We headed up to Rochester this morning and I always have my toy camera with me to do some kind of photograph along the way, like my favorite abandoned farmhouse in Ovid.  But I wanted to get to Rochester before it was too late in the day, so I did a few photographs at the start of the trip, and then stopped shooting.  This is a photograph from the Long Mountain Parkway which runs between the Taconic State Parkway and the New York State Thruway.  Parts of this route are cut from the side of a mountain because the route goes up over the top of a ridge and down the back side.  So I wanted to show you this rock wall because it is a different kind of scenery than my usual landscape photographs, and shows the incredible amount of excavation required to make parts of this route. My landscape photographs are real photographs, and this is just a snapshot.  But the good news is, that after shooting this, I put the camera down and paid attention to my driving.  No doubt you are relieved!