Almost unbelievably, given that the temperature at this time of day just 4 days ago was just barely in the positive digits, today was an extremely mild 45 degrees, so we tossed aside indoor pursuits and headed out to enjoy it! On our morning walk, the various stonewalls lining both sides of the road captured our imaginations, and I couldn't seem to stop taking pictures of them. Here's a few of them for you to enjoy, too.
3 comments:
Wow Shelley stone walls, that must be a New England thing. We don't see those in the midwest. It seems reminiscent of the Mother Country. Are they THAT old or relatively new?
Rhonda
I guess that depends on WHICH Mother Country you're talking about! The walls in my photos were most likely constructed in the early 1800s. As settlers cleared and plowed fields for planting, they had to move the abundant rocks and boulders that are found pretty much EVERYWHERE here somewhere -- so they stuck them on the edges of the fields, where they formed long walls that were added to each year as frost heaves pushed more rocks to the surface. (One thing we have no lack of in New England is rocks!!!)
So yes, a very VERY New England thing. Most of the woods here are former farmlands, so stone walls criss cross all over the place, hard to walk too far before stumbling across one (sometimes literally, LOL). And most of the roads that were in place during the 1800s are still lined with them.
oh yea I forgot, I guess I was just thinking of "Old" England.(as opposed to New England) Rhonda
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