Stone walls are a common presence in an old New England town like Ridgefield that mixes old farms and country living with impressive newer homes and suburban life. Stone walls of all kinds.
From the big stones stacked beside the road by farmers clearing their fields in the 18th century . . .
. . . to a stone wall built a century ago in front of a farm house . . .
. . . to the kind-of-formal stone walls in front of a well-loved older house . . .
. . . to the neat stone walls built by masons for the owners of a new estate home . . .
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. . . to a fortress-like leave-me-alone stone wall like this one.
Wonderful styles, Jack! That last one is a bit forbidding.
ReplyDeleteFarmers even in the Midwest say that the only sure crop every year is rocks. The freeze-thaw cycle brings them to the surface of the fields every year.
ReplyDeleteI love stone walls, and know a man who not only builds dry stone walls, but has given a workshop of how to do it. I didn't attend, and he must have been a bit wordy, because the workshop was over and he'd only built the foundation of a wall which was never finished.
ReplyDeleteFairly common here in the countryside too, Jack.
ReplyDeleteThose are some fine looking stonewalls, Jack. Dry stonewalls are popular here in Donegal and been around for a long time.
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