Stephen and BB set out to view scenic overpasses in the highest of South Western New York Allegany Mountains and visited a few peaks to watch leaf changes taking place. We got great video high up but even better along the shores of the Allegany River as it winds through Seneca and Iriquois lands where dear and bear still run in abundance. Believe we heard a black bear about 100 feet from our position so we raced to the van. BB won!
Continued on to Cuba, NY where the greatest cheese in America is made at the Cuba Cheese Factory. Outside are two Gurnsey cows as statues that Stephen and BB stayed next to with a few of the Cuba Cheese folks for photos.
Then we went to view the great McKinney horse barn...a most magnificent barn built in 1906, hundreds of feet long and beautiful with sprawling grounds nestled in the mountainous valley of Cuba. We found the offices of the Allegany News, The Patriot, on Water Street and stopped by for photos and probably a story of our travels.
Then it was on past the Seneca and Iriquios Casinos and we took time to stop at the museum before heading to Almond, NY to shoot, Wendy and Bill, the fine folks at The Fleece Factory. They showed Stephen and BB how the alpaca fleece is processed from arriving as shorn fleece, being cleaned and washed, dried and processed into various
spools or skeins for knitters to make use of in turning alpaca fleece into sweaters, socks, hats, scarfs, blankets, slippers and so much more.
En route to YBNormal Farms, going West again, we shot the setting sun scenes along the Allegany River as it meandered through the multicolored forests of the mountains with Canadian geese flying in wedge formations above, heading mostly south, with gaggles from four to forty geese honking their way through the mountain passes before
the first snows hit.
In the morning we are expecting over a hundred bales of good hay to be stored in the century old barn at YB Normal Alpaca Farms in Frewsburg,NY. We will shoot it all as the truck comes in at first light, then we are shooting how to inject alpacas with specific deworming medications, weigh the newborns, and work with some championship
fleece blankets.
There are so many truly beautiful locations to shoot for our documentary...and we are heading up through Buffalo before going over to Albany, NY and into Clifton Park. Once there, we will go into the awesome Lake Placid area to try to make friends and complete at least half of our mission for encouraging Lake Placid, NY folks to accept
Lake Placid, FL as their little "sister city." We also came from Jamestown, VA to Jamestown, NY on this trek.
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You and your alpacas covered an aweful lot of territory in a short period. Hope they were able to graze okay and get rest. What about "bathroom breaks" or do you smell like an alpaca field?
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