Butterflys & Flowers
posted in Collecting Locations, Filming |After a stormy and muggy weekend in New York City, we faced a drizzly drive back up to Maine. We decided to stop at Green’s Farm to collect almandine garnets, even in the weather. This location is a classic Connecticut collecting local, and we didn’t want to miss out. The farmer who owns the land asks that visitors park, pay the $5 a person collecting fee, and then walk down the path to through the woods.
At the end the of the trail the woods open up, bringing the mine and tailings piles into clear view. Garnets can be scratched out of the piles with a hand rake, you can bust it out of the harder rock.
But soon it started to down-pour, so we hurried back to the car for our drive back up to Tom’s House (Tom Klinepeter, starkhillgem) in Fryeburg, Maine. They had received rain over the weekend too, so Diane’s (Tom’s Wife) flowers were extra pretty.
One final thing, I don’t know if you have ever seen a Hummingbird Moth before, I had until I sow this one. I can’t believe a got such good photos of it.
