Headed over to Duke Farms, in Hillsborough, New Jersey, for their self-guided "Walk on the Wild Side" nature walk. It cost $5 per person and is the second of two tours at Duke Farms not worth the money (the other being the $15 "Country Manor Tour"). The short walk, with little actually demonstrated and shown, should be free or cost a suggested donation.
The stone irrigation poles in the abandoned tree nursery are interesting. The highlight of the walk, though, is the stone hay barn, gutted by fire, later repurposed to a sculpture garden. The stone, outer walls remain, climbed high by trumpet vines and open to the sky. Grass covers the ground, and ornamental small trees and shrubs line the inside perimeter, punctuated by a few stone sculptures of human forms. Half the sculptures are missing or badly broken. Nonetheless, this is indeed a magic little eerie, romantic, empty, secret garden of a space.
This is my bit of a blog. Rambling words about rambling days. No focus and nothing ambitious. I seem to write most about local color, nature, and animals, and there is an incomplete chunk about my road trips of 2011.
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