Allan Anderson enjoys searching the winter woods of Sussex for evidence of past history.
21 Januray 2011
In my Barefootin’ column in Friday’s edition of the Cape Gazette, I wrote about an overgrown homestead on Wolfe Neck. Here are a few of the photographs from that column, and more, that I took last Sunday while hiking in that beautiful coastal forest.
A buckle, buttons and shards of pottery from the old Thompson homestead.
A pile of bricks against a tree provides further evidence of past lives.
The shed skin of a black snake hangs from a holly branch near the homestead. Pricks on the edges of stiff holly leaves must provide a natural tool for helping snakes shed their old skins.
The path of a raccoon near a freshwater stream, that must have served the homestead, witness other creatures that live in the forest.
