The Cornell campus is lovely, because as well as bits like this:

it has bits like this:

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and this:

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and this:

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A few more pictures here.

After this, just a few miles down the road, I drove through the heaviest rainstorm I can remember, with lightning exploding overhead.

I'm now in Old Forge, NY with a hope of seeing something of the Adirondacks tomorrow.