I marveled here a while back about how much I love dry-stacked stone fences. And those were just your run-of-the-mill fences that remain down-to-earth. So imagine how I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw this fence, well, jumping!
Located at Vermont's Two Scottie Farm, this is a stone fence that took a creative approach to an old tree stump that was in the way. While most of us might imagine a fence that veers around the stump, this fence hops up over it! The result is the most beautiful, whimsical, Andy Goldsworthy-esque stone fence. It's details like this that prove that the built environment really does have a sense of humor. Don't you love it?
See the rest of Two Scottie Farm - which is full of this kind of character - at Natural Home & Garden.
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wow that is a fantastic keystone and arch job.
You might like this photo book recently reviewed in the NYTimes of dry stone walls around the world.
http://marianacook.com/
They are lovely but here in Ireland (and back home in Yorkshire, England) we call those dry stone walls not fences...
We call them walls also. I think the author was taking liberties, they do work like fences.
LOVE it. (It could BE Goldsworthy, he worked in that area before.)
@Quinnykins: yes, here in the US we also call them walls, as funstraw says! LOL.
Very strange that the poster should refer to this as a "fence" -- eight times, no less, in a short post. The more so, when, in the article referenced, this lovely structure is (repeatedly and correctly) referred to as a wall.
Be that as it may... a few years ago I was lucky enough to visit Kenmare, Ireland, home of Cromwell's Bridge -- a 300+ year old arched pedestrian bridge, amazingly built sans mortar.
Built of stone, I should have said!
I love natural stone walls and walkways. I'm currently landscaping our front garden and using a lot of free stone from the area, Tennessee. I'd like to see more garden features here. Especially if it has links to good sites (bonus points for how-tos) as it's a little intimidating.
Well technically it is a fence. It is just more common to call it a stone wall.
There are other wonderful examples of Goldsworthy style (or maybe THE man himself made them) stone fences in Shelburne, VT, on a side road near the bay, west side...
One's an arch framing a fantastic view.
It doesn't matter what they're called, whatever is locally correct works for me.
I also thought it funny to call them fences!