Maya on one of our walks on the mountain the last week of December 2012. She turned one-year-old on Dec. 18. No party, except for my nephew, who has the same birthday.
I love these woods. Few people go there and Maya and I usually have the place to ourselves. She runs freely and to her heart's content. We're constantly discovering new things about it. It is easy to imagine as farm land by the way the land rolls and the stone walls and obvious tacks of old access road. It has such a spirit about it. But the trails lead down to the reservoir and the valley that would have also been farmland once. Like I say, it has spirit. It's like it wants to tell its story.
And, the age of the trees also indicate full clearing to allow for farming, Probably about 100 years ago.
ReplyDeleteYep. And coincides with the building of the reservoir, which was completed in 1906. There are some ruins of a farm. Can't recall if I've written about that. Some of the paths are clearly old roads into the farm.
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