Thanksgiving in the Adirondacks

We spent a beautiful Thanksgiving weekend

in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York,

in and around Lake Placid.

Over the course of three days,

it went from autumn to winter.

(Be sure to click on each picture for a larger view.)

Sunrise over Wilmington

Santa's Workshop, North Pole, NY

Adirondack silhouette

Mirror Lake living up to its name

Lodge reflections

Late fall landscape

Whiteface Mountain

In the distance

The actual Lake Placid

The mighty Ausable River

Our first snowfall

Schroon Lake, NY

The sun setting

Thanksgiving in Lake Placid

We were invited to spend Thanksgiving with my sister and her family in Lake Placid, NY, home of the '32 and '80 Olympics. It looked a lot like Christmas.

Relaxing with the "dog cousins," Abby and Alice.


A little bit of Dancing Twister before dinner.


And the dancing/flipping monkey.

The kiddie table.

Our hosts. We knew the food would be great since they once owned their own restaurant.

Lots of crafting and gaming going on.

A game of putting spools of thread back in the jar.


Making necklaces -- from spools...

...and beads.

I made some Scottie dog ornaments.

We also played Scrabble and drank lots of coffee.

The dads were relegated to the bedroom to watch football. We watched a video of my niece performing in "The Little Mermaid" and a few movies while crafting.

The kids played outside in the snow for a bit too.

Look for more photos on Flickr, especially the ones that show how the weather changed on our drive home. It looked like Christmas up there but it's still fall here at home.

Thanksgiving, over the river and through the woods

Once again, we spent our Thanksgiving

in the most heavenly place on Earth --

the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

And this is how I spent Black Friday morning,

photographing the foggy and snowy landscape

near Lake Placid, site of the '32 and '80 Olympics.

We never know what kind of weather we will get

up in the mountains and the photos each year reflect that.

(Make sure you click each image for a larger view.)

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families!

We hope you have a wonderful stress-free day.

We are heading to Lake Placid in the morning

for dinner with my sister and her family.

We expect it to look a bit like it did last year.
Maybe we should go there for Christmas instead....

Thanksgivings present and past

You can see more photos from our Thanksgiving Day outings, here on Flickr. Unseasonably warm in Lake Placid. Great for us, not so great for the folks wanting a ski holiday. Here and here show what it was like on our past trips.

The boys are all out raking the yard one last time with Dad. And I'm listening the the holiday music here on the blog while trying get packages shipped from 3 days of orders. Then hopefully put is some creative time. Or maybe we should all go for another walk, with my camera of course.