All,
With a few places in mind to visit today, we first headed to the Rockwood area to plant the trees Jessica acquired at the “Lines on the Pines” book signing. We also were going to trim a few blueberry bushes there to see if the plants we cut will produce this year. Along the way we visited the Boot Hill Gun Club area and noticed that right along the road at 206 there is some sort of very small ruins consisting of mortar and sandstone. Has anyone noticed these?
Then to Rockwood. As we were searching around to plant our trees, and cut some blueberry bushes, we found this photo nailed to a tree with a turtle below it. Maybe someone died there???
This was on a tree nearby.
Then to the beaver dam where the Never Wet is starting to show.
The yellow looks like it was coated on like chocolate or wax.
It’s everywhere.
While planting our trees we dug this grub up.
Supersize. Click the photo to enlarge it.
http://teegate.njpinebarrens.com/04132009/grub.jpg
Our next agenda was to check out a small piece of Wharton that very few people even knows exists. It is not marked on any topo map that I have viewed; however, I have this. Notice the acreage.
It is located just off Bards Bridge Road near Forked Neck Road just off of Carranza. Much of the property in that area is private, and it took us a while to decide the best way to access it where there were no private property signs.
There should be three property stones there and finding them was our main objective. The first one is semi close to the road. This shows the state monument and the damaged stone.
The second one was along the bog bank in a cedar swamp. The bog bank mentioned in the second photo above can be viewed in the photo below behind the stone.
And the third location only had the state stone.
We did not go to the last one since a back yard of a house meets that corner; however, right close to the property line there we found a really deep cellar hole and evidence that many years ago this was a well used home site.
Guy
With a few places in mind to visit today, we first headed to the Rockwood area to plant the trees Jessica acquired at the “Lines on the Pines” book signing. We also were going to trim a few blueberry bushes there to see if the plants we cut will produce this year. Along the way we visited the Boot Hill Gun Club area and noticed that right along the road at 206 there is some sort of very small ruins consisting of mortar and sandstone. Has anyone noticed these?
Then to Rockwood. As we were searching around to plant our trees, and cut some blueberry bushes, we found this photo nailed to a tree with a turtle below it. Maybe someone died there???
This was on a tree nearby.
Then to the beaver dam where the Never Wet is starting to show.
The yellow looks like it was coated on like chocolate or wax.
It’s everywhere.
While planting our trees we dug this grub up.
Supersize. Click the photo to enlarge it.
http://teegate.njpinebarrens.com/04132009/grub.jpg
Our next agenda was to check out a small piece of Wharton that very few people even knows exists. It is not marked on any topo map that I have viewed; however, I have this. Notice the acreage.
It is located just off Bards Bridge Road near Forked Neck Road just off of Carranza. Much of the property in that area is private, and it took us a while to decide the best way to access it where there were no private property signs.
There should be three property stones there and finding them was our main objective. The first one is semi close to the road. This shows the state monument and the damaged stone.
The second one was along the bog bank in a cedar swamp. The bog bank mentioned in the second photo above can be viewed in the photo below behind the stone.
And the third location only had the state stone.
We did not go to the last one since a back yard of a house meets that corner; however, right close to the property line there we found a really deep cellar hole and evidence that many years ago this was a well used home site.
Guy
Do you need a separate lens for the macro shot ? (Great detail, by the way!)
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