The fall has begun, the leaves have only begun to turn, but a few have fallen. The acreage next door is preserved farmland. I've heard there's a spot in the north end of central-park, that you can look in any direction and none of the city is apparent. At the farm-next-door there is no line-of-sight into the 21st century. How sweet it is.
It is wonderful to speculate what the land was like then. But not all as beautiful as your photo! The growing cities demanded charcoal and throughout New England there were vast pockets where huge charcoal fires burned for weeks and months. Much of the farmland was recently cleared, piled with stumps. Just as much of it is beautiful today, so then . . . but different. Man's influence was apparent everywhere.
ReplyDeleteAmazing - - I often think as I travel the local remote back roads, that were obviously in place in the 18th century - - that they were THE roads of the time. And to your point, sort of, about 'second growth' as you go around the state and see all the forests with stone walls zig-zagging within them, that they were once fields, cleared of stone, that now, 300 years later are forests.
ReplyDeleteI love time-traveling.