Trip to Pittsfield

On Friday Trevor & I drove to the Berkshires to pick up my sister's old TV. It's newer than ours and was at an excellent price (free) so we took it. It only cost us gas money and some driving time. Along the way we stopped at Wahconah Falls in Winsdor, MA. (above) We enjoyed a picnic lunch and had the place to ourselves for a good hour and then were invaded by tourists. So we left.

Mugging for the camera.

While we were killing time in Pittsfield we found this really nice park on Onota Lake. We walked along the lake, swung on swings (I love doing that), and put out a forest fire in the making (our good deed for the day).

Nearly vertical slabs of limestone in Pittsfield along the shores of Onota Lake.

We also visited Balance Rock State Park in Lanesboro, just north of Pittsfield. It's a gigantic boulder of limestone balanced on another rock, a relic of the last ice age. (Notice how I said "last ice age"?) Geologists call these "glacial erratics". Sadly, it's covered in graffiti and the plaque is long gone.

We had a brief visit with my sister and her husband and then were on our way back home.

I only spent $3.41 on tea and a cookie at a local coffee shop in downtown Pittsfield.