New England's stone fences are another characteristic of this charming northeastern landscape. A roadside border wall, pictured here, was found along Londonberry's scenic Route 105. Vermont's white birches and autumn's falling leaves send out invitation to visitors all over the world.
Farmers find that stones seem to mysteriously reappear in their field a each year, a phenomenon aided by many frost and thaw cycles. New England's countryside is littered with granite rocks and boulders, dropped there by the receding Laurentian Ice Sheet, thousands of years ago. It appears to be a natural tendency, when rocks are removed from a field, that they end up stacked along the property lines. Looking back to times before modern farm equipment, one can appreciate the plowman's efforts required to move some of the obstacles in his path.