Snow On The Wall

Alf Evers, in his writing, "The Catskills: From Wilderness to Woodstock", relates the answer he got when he asked an old-timer how he could tell just where the mountains began. "You keep on going until you get to where there's two stones to every dirt. Then, b' Jesus, you're there."

Fieldstone produces beautiful barn walls and fences. In an 1850 interview, when asking an old stone mason, "You must consider yourself an artist." "I’m not an artist… All I’m interested in is building a wall that won’t crack, won’t shift, won’t fall down, won’t tip over and will hold up this barn." The wall he was constructing had a mixture of red, brown, and orange stones. They were of various shapes and they were all put together in a way that was as artistic as any artist would do.

When I drive by an old fieldstone-foundation barn, or wall, surrounding an isolated field, I realize, no matter what the old timer said, it doesn't require canvas or paint to be an artist…