Happy Valentine's Day to our favorite place in the world: Upstate New York! With love from InnovationTrail.org and our friends on Twitter and Facebook.

1. Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach Binghamton
Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course Elmira
Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George Kingston
International Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort Stanwix Niagara Falls
Plattsburgh Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome Fort Niagara Saratoga
Springs Finger Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Erie Canal Troy Darien Lake Utica
Watertown Corning Museum of Glass Adirondack Mountains Catskill Mountains Ausable Chasm Baseball
Hall of Fame Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach
Binghamton Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course
Elmira Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George
Kingston International Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort Stanwix
Niagara Falls Plattsburgh Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome Fort Niagara
Saratoga Springs Finger Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Erie Canal Troy Darien Lake
Utica Watertown Corning Museum of Glass Adirondack Mountains Catskill Mountains Ausable Chasm
Baseball Hall of Fame Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands
Sylvan Beach Binghamton Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga
Race Course Elmira Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown
Lake George Kingston International Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort
Stanwix Niagara Falls Plattsburgh Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome
Fort Niagara Saratoga Springs Finger Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Albany Turning
Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach Binghamton Soccer Hall of
Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course Elmira Niagara Falls Glens
Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George Kingston International
Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort Stanwix Niagara Falls Plattsburgh
Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome Fort Niagara Saratoga Springs Finger
Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Erie Canal Troy Darien Lake Utica Watertown
Corning Museum of Glass Adirondack Mountains Catskill Mountains Ausable Chasm Baseball Hall of Fame
Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach Binghamton
Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course Elmira
Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George Kingston
International Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort Stanwix Niagara Falls
Plattsburgh Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome Fort Niagara Saratoga
We Upstate
Springs Finger Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Erie Canal Troy Darien Lake Utica
Watertown Corning Museum of Glass Adirondack Mountains Catskill Mountains Ausable Chasm Baseball
Hall of Fame Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach
Binghamton Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course
Elmira Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George

2. I love that orange and blue is a fashionable color scheme, no
matter the occasion.
Ryan Delaney, Innovation Trail reporter, WRVO Syracuse
Image via Flickr: Briles Takes Pictures…

3. I love upstate for the beautiful countryside,
the short commutes and the considerate
drivers.
Ken Campbell, WSKG Binghamton
Image via Flickr: millicent_bystander

4. Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
We're New York too, you rat bastards.
@devmorgan, via Twitter
Image via Flickr: Pro-Zak

5. Not surprisingly, we love CNY because of the
quantity & high quality of arts & culture here.
We're so lucky!
@SyrArts, via Twitter
Image via Flickr: stevendepolo

6. I love upstate New York for its forests, fields & flowers, mountains &
valleys, rock & soil, lakes, rivers & streams.
@Lynn4MK, via Twitter
Image via Flickr: michaelb1

7. Upstate has amazing wineries that are well-known around the country.
Cara, via Facebook
Image via Flickr: vestman

8. Let us count the ways:
Something to do in every season, great NNY communities & neighbors,
visiting our Canadian friends, terrific business partners for our
students, four seasons of fun in Adirondacks ... a great place to live,
work & learn!
@ClarksonUniv, via Twitter
Image via Flickr: jerseyfreeze

9. I love the [Syracuse] Regional Market and the locavore
movement. It is incredibly inspiring to have a group of people
advocating good health, knowledge regarding consumption,
responsibility to the earth and development of a community.
Mariah, from Syracuse
Image via Flickr: cuorhome

10. I love upstate’s waterfront! Miles and miles of shoreline along Lake Erie,
the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. Beautiful vistas, great recreational
opportunities and yes … awesome lake effect snow storms. The only thing
better than living near a Great Lake is living near two Great Lakes.
Jim Ranney, WNED Buffalo
Image via Flickr: Panegyrics of Granovetter

11. What I love most about
upstate is that amazing
moment when winter has
melted away, and the signs of
spring are everywhere: the
snowdrops and crocuses in
our front yard, the sound of
song birds as they return,
and the gentle green haze of
buds that covers our trees.
Julie Figueras, WXXI
Rochester
Image via Flickr: Kettukusu

12. I have four letters that explain a lot of what I love about Upstate NY:
W - R - V - O.
@brianfay, via Twitter
Image via Flickr: keko.

13. Love is complicated and so is upstate. Love can bring the highest highs
and the lowest lows and so can upstate. Love is beautiful but can sting
at any time with heartbreak. Upstate is pretty much the same as that.
Daniel Robison, Innovation Trail reporter, WNED Buffalo
Image via Flickr: ^@^ina (Irina Patrascu)

14. I love the outdoors of upstate –
beautiful mountains, lakes, and rivers.
Marie Cusick, Innovation Trail reporter, WMHT Albany
Image via Flickr: hipsdontlie

15. I love apples straight off the tree and
walking around Green Lakes State Park.
Durrie, from Syracuse
Image via Flickr: iMaffo

16. [Upstate towns],
partly decayed and
yet still quite
beautiful, have a
transparent
relationship to
history: so much of
the past is still
visible in their
ruins and
remnants.
Dana Spiotta, New
York Times, June Zack Seward/WXXI
10, 2011

17. I love its lakes and other outdoorsy things. And Wegmans.
Diane, from Albany
Image via Flickr: A.Currell

18. Happy Valentine’s Day, upstate!
With love,
InnovationTrail.org
Public media reporting on the economy and technology in upstate New York