A Beautiful Scene For Fall

Very nice. As usual I like these rural, wooded scenes the best.

Then I'll try to find some more rural wooded scenes, Dave.

Oh, post what you like! I'm interested in them all, but the wooded scenes (especially if by water) do resonate best for me.

It's very pretty. I wonder if the location actually exists anywhere other than an artist's imagination? What do you think?

The particular style of this fence, the name of which now escapes me, is likely to have been photographed.

The postcard, however, gives no indication of a locale.

Rick rack, zig-zag, and split rail are three names I remember.

Thanks, Cena.

How very nice! Fall is a beautiful time of year and it's also my favorite!

I love Autumn, too, K.D.

It certainly provides many opportunities for lovely drawings, prints, and photographs.

Peter, it surely does. Beauty is all around us duriing this time. Not that there isn't beauty around us during the rest of the year, just more of it now.

I think that the dramatic change in the coloration of the landscape - at least in the areas where this occurs, inspires greater attentiveness and appreciation of beautiful landscapes.

This is pretty, but I think it is not true to reality. The red leaves on the smaller trees would indicate there has been frost to turn the leaves. But the profuse flowers look like summer varieties. The log fence means it does not represent anywhere in New England where stone walls are the norm because of a need to keeping the fields cleared of the stones pushed up by winter frosts eact year.

Stone walls certainly predominate in New England, as you note, Ruth.

The creation of stone walls is an art form -as I learned when I helped construct one one summer.

Kansans were wonderful at using native rock and boast miles and miles of stone fences. We have a 48mile long scenic byway dedicated to the art of using stone.

Native limestone was often used for constructing buildings that have stood the test of time. Our home is a historical church with a Silverdale stone facade in the front and partial stone walls on the sides. :-)

Thanks for sharing this, Talea.

I was unaware that the good folks of Kansas had created a "48 mile long scenic byway dedicated to the art of using stone. "

Where is this demonstration of stone work?

Pete...After another of gather's famous glitches :-), I've posted additional scenic byway information here...

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977898160

It is a pretty scene, I think the color on the ground are leaves, red and yellow that have fallen. Some grasses and weeds don't brown until after a hard frost.

Like you, I think the color on the ground is from fallen leaves, and not flowers.

The leaves are strewn even in the middle of the road.

While the linen cards promote vivid coloration, they make prevent detail in the picture.

My husband is much more astute when it comes to observing landscapes so I asked him on this one. He’s often a wonderful source for eclectic historical information. :-)

This type of fencing is called a plantation fence (at least in our part of the woods). They were very common in The Great Appalachian Valley in addition to areas further south and were used from at least the Revolutionary times forward. Most often, they were not high enough to keep wildlife out or stock animals in but were mainly used to mark land boundaries due to their portability and ease of conformity to the landscape. They sometimes double for snow fences as well. Their simple construction out of virtually free materials made them affordable to mark large land tracts and quick to assemble/disassemble as land was bought and sold. They were low for horses to jump and may even be the origin of the sport of hurdling(though not necessarily in this local or even the US). Sometimes they were used on the plantations to mark our boundaries for slaves or sharecroppers. They were also used to hang quilts for communication during the historical underground railroad movement.

As far as the specific area of the card, it’s hard to tell since they were common to a large area of the country and the leaves on the trees/tree types are unidentifiable.