Stonehurst

The Robert Treat Paine Estate, aka Stonehurst, is part of Storer Conservation Area.

Today we spent a lot of time just hangin’ out on the grounds of this spectacular mansion designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and H.H. Richardson. Open to the public year round, sunrise to sunset. Just there for the taking if you know about it and take the time to stop.

http://stonehurstwaltham.org/

This child adventured all around here, playing baseball with a stick, running laps around the big rock, imagining a parade with pine boughs, etc.

On the trails behind the house, we found pages of The Jungle Book posted along the trail, so you read as you walk in the forest. This was leftover from a Waltham library event in June.

The Jungle Book

And then the craziest thing, as we were leaving, we found that this impeccable model T ford had arrived. Look at the old wood spokes. We had just seen someone driving it around town a couple of days before, and here it was again…are you following us?

Model T

Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum) and...Dryopteris marginalis?