Beach vacation in mountains

Since it was a long weekend, we made another escape this time to Grafton, a sleepy town in Rensselaer County, upstate New York. It was perfectly low-key vacation in the woods. We stayed at a cool stone house that once served as a mountain chapel. We spent all day at a beach on a lake nearby. (We were the first ones on the beach at 10am!) Taiyo was so happy to make his little sand castle. We took a little hike around the lake. We drove over Taconic Mountains and had pizza by a creek in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Visited Peace Pagoda, built by a small Japanese Buddhist sect. Of course I had a naive notion that I'd be motivated to organize some photos into a photo book or a collage, or work on that unfinished video (not one from Tokyo, Taiyo's summer 2014!), but my laptop only brought mild distraction along. I didn't get productive, but certainly rested a little. Mission accomplished.