New York to Pennsylvania: Autumn to early Winter

Had a beautiful autumn to winter drive from Syracuse, New York, to State College, Pennsylvania, where I will meet, speak with, and give a talk to astronomers tomorrow. The drive through New York and Pennsylvania was gorgeous with all of the fall colors brightening the rolling valleys of this largely rural drive. The drive was generally moderately up and down through shallow valleys, winding between thickly wooded hills in peak colors of red, yellow, and green. The weather went from mysterious and gloomy, to a little rainy and then very rainy, with finally very wet snow as I approached State College. It was the earliest snow in the records of State College, people at Penn State and at Steven's Motel told me.

The moderate sized towns and the little town buildings along the highway had a lot of character. Many corn fields made me wonder how competitive is corn grown in New England versus the superfarms elsewhere. The whole drive had many picturesque places, with winding streams at the bottom of lush green valleys.