Greetings,
Fruitlands, Harvard MA has been a museum and preserve for 100 years! There are 2.5 miles of hiking along preserved open space, meadows and woods.
You can learn about Fruitlands transcendental beginnings, history and more at www.fruitlands.org.
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| Looking through the field to the Shaker Museum. |
Thanks to the glacier, a lake used to be on the grounds 8,000 years ago and Native Americans lived there 10,000 years ago! There were farmers in the 1700s, a brick maker in the 1800s and a dairy farm for a good part of the 1900s.
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| This a small portion of the foundation of a building that housed workers for the brick making business. |
Since nature is my specialty, next are wildflower photos, and a butterfly.
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| This is a male Perly Crescentspot butterfly. I'm no expert - but I do have a butterfly book! You can see a damselfly perched in the background too, with a pearly blue end on its body. |
Now for an amazing ringed flower on a tree!
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| This is a highbush cranberry. Cherrie Corey informed me these were ornamental trees likely planted long ago. There may not be very many left in the area. |
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| Tiny and lovely New England Aster |
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| Japanese Honeysuckle |
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| Woodland sunflowers - very tiny... |
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| This is the Yellow Hawkweed. |
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| Wild Geranium - Look at the details - and star in the middle. |
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| Boardwalk surrounded by wildflowers... |
Thank you for walking with me! Be sure and visit Fruitlands soon!
(Walking anywhere in the woods, protect against mosquitoes and ticks, etc.)
