Pennsylvania Vista - Carousel Farm    cfe

NJ WILD readers know that I sometimes stray across my beloved Delaware River (windows open so I can take in her aura through almost all senses) to Bucks County.  When I lived there, from 1981 through 1987, I explored every back road.

Carousel Farm Welcome

Even so, I was not aware of Carousel Farm — where animals for Broadway shows thrived on rolling fields between performances.  Many theatre people peopled Bucks County in those days, from Hammerstein onward — this may be the Bucks County connection.  Today, those supple hills bloom every summer, lavender to the horizon, its scent on the air and the sound of happy bees in my ears.

A Visitor Enjoys the Lavender  (a cloudless sulfur butterfly)

This July (2010) was clearly stressing these purple stalks, even though (I know from my life in Provence) they are drought-tolerant to the max.  Soaking hoses twined among sage-green foliage, as yet another 90-+-degree day surrounded my excursion companion and me.

Espaliered Apples Ripen

Carousel’s products are what drew me there in the first place.  Their fragrance is that of French lavender, not the less pungent, too-sweet English scent.  And their creams actually soften skin, lasting for hours, unlike too many ‘hand lotions’ which only coat then vanish.

Venerable Window

Here are scenes of July 2010.  Wander lavender fields with us:

Looking from Arbor toward Stable

Lavender Farm’s Private Haven

“Vive La France” in the middle of Bucks County

The Quiet Garden - a fine place to write poetry…

The Good Life, Carousel Farm Donkeys

Carousel Farm Beauty and Precision

(the stable is so clean, it smells only of oatmeal…)

Nobility of Yesteryear, Carousel Farm

Cloudless Sulfur [Butterfly] Sips

Stable and Espaliered Fruit

Lavender Abundance - ‘Lavender Fields Forever…’

WHY SAVE FARMS!