We're in Brewerton, NY. We got a nice rental car for $19.99 per day (weekend special) to go see the Finger Lakes, NY area.

Finger lakes It is an area of beautiful rolling hills, lakes and many vinyards.

We drove to Corning, NY to see the Corning Glass Museum. It is a very large museum, filled with glass not only from Corning, but from every area of the world and every age from 3,000 BC to 2002.

I won't put a dozen pictures of glass in the blog, but here is sculptural glass.

Antique glass.

Tiffany glass.

And an amazing collection of Harvard College botanical specimens, all made from glass, that looked exactly like the actual plants and were used for biological studies.

On the way back to the boat, we stopped by Taughannock Falls state park.

The falls is higher than Niagra Falls and set in a very picturesque canyon. The canyon has been cut by the river through a shale rock area by the river. It's more like a creek today, but after heavy rains, it's a thundering maelstrom.

The downstream river bed is hard shale, almost like slate, so it's fun to walk in the shallow running water with the nice smooth stone bottom.

We drove to Canandaigua, NY to see the Sonnenberg Mansion, which is a huge 1890s mansion in the finger lakes area. We enjoyed touring the interior rooms and the many gardens.