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When Phin means business, Phin means business. I cherish the gate too much to let him do harm to it.

January 26, 2012

January 25, 2012

The only things being grown by this greenhouse are on the outside.

This was taken on Baldpate Mountain, once known as Kuser Mountain, along the Delaware River. This greenhouse is at the summit where the Kuser estate (also called "Strawberry Hill") sits. Now abandoned, it includes a main house, lodge, and various servant buildings & farms. For a few years in the early 1900s the family established a game farm on the mountain, raising pheasants with the assistance of an experienced gamekeeper and other local workers. The family, obviously quite wealthy, were even clearing the land for a small airstrip at the summit.

Aside from the abandoned structures, Bald Pate Mountain's peak is Mercer County's highest point, about 470 feet above sea level. The park is more than a thousand acres and contains over ten miles of unpaved trails, marked and unmarked, all currently open for hikers, bikers, equestrians, and hunters during the season.

January 24, 2012

January 23, 2012