I trailed my daughter as she and Avi ambled through the woods on a late-summer morning, a day that dawned clean and fresh after a furious downpour of nighttime rain. They were soon out of sight, leaving me on my own in silence that was punctuated now and then by the caroling of a winter wren.
Several trees growing from a "grandmother stump" |
A ravine, one among many--no wonder the news here is full of stories of ponies stuck in ravines |
These two soon receded into the distance |
Detail of old wooden table languishing in the woods |
Beautiful leaded windows on old farmhouse |
Old farmhouse in woods |