Berkshire travelogue.

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.” ― Edith Wharton

So much walking in the Berkshires! 

Our second day started out at the Berkshire Botanical garden, a 15-acre botanical garden located in Stockbridge. Probably no surprise, but I was pleased to realize that eight years spent living at Green Victoria has better equipped me to recognize and identify most common types of New England vegetation. Oh, look! I see lilies, hosta, roses, lilacs, sunflowers. Corb only had to correct me once or twice. And of couurse, there were 3,000 different varieties. Still, we filled out quite a few varieties on our New England vegetation Bingo card.

After that, we spent most of the day at the Hancock Shaker Village,  a former Shaker commune  that was organized in 1790 and was active until 1960 and then sold to a local group who operate the property as an open-air museum. 

I am proud to report that we explored every single building, including a round stone barn with four interior rings that was apparently quite a sensation in its day. We even hiked through one of the nature trails and then circled back to the cemetery, which really is more of a memorial stone surrounded by a large black fence, and located next to a huge solar farm ten times larger than the cemetery.

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