Estate Garden Tour
A Mysterious Diversion
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The cache page says, "You will find the remains of a long ago homestead and many indications of the apparent passion the owner must have had for gardens." Well, I guess so! The entry to the site is an old stone gate, barely perceptable under all the growth. |
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| And you realize you are about to enter some strange place when you follow the driveway (carriage path?) along a stone wall until you encounter what must have once been an enchanting garden pond, complete with lilly pads. |  Alas, no frogs would let me get close enough for a portrait. |
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| I did come across this little guy, though. Can you see him? |
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| If not, click on his picture. ;-) | As wonderful as that pond was, I had a cache to find. On with the hunt! |
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Another mysterious used-to-be garden path led across a bridge to a beautiful clearing, complete with apple trees! |
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| Well, to make a long story short (the tree cover was hampering the GPS view of the satellites), I finally found it, quite near this tree that had all its bark stripped. The cache page does mention a bear sighting... | ...and if he did this,
I'm glad we didn't meet! |
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| A bizarre fungus, the first step on A Stairway To Heaven! |  |
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| Time to move along. But mysteries remain. Passing again through that clearing, I came upon Gennaro. The cache page says Joann is here somewhere too, but I didn't find her. One wonders who they were, or if this footing were part of a great mansion.. | |
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I hope so
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With thanks to MtnDave for a nice visit to a mysterious place!
Visit the cache page at www.geocaching.com
© Frank Burnside Jr. 2002