Happy Friday and hope everyone stays warm.....how do the little outside critters survive this sort of weather? I found bunny prints all over my front steps this morning and that made me wonder. Maybe tonite I'll put out some carrots for them.
So, I'm still reading "The Ha-Ha" and continue to enjoy it. I think alot of you would like this book as well. There is a part in the beginning of the book that describes a "ha-ha" as follows:
"A ha-ha is a boundary wall concealed in a ditch so that it does not intrude upon the view. Much employed by the great nineteenth-century English landscape gardner "Capability" Brown, its original purpose was to make possible uninterrupted views from the lawns and other more nealty cared-for areas surrounding the mansions, of more distant trees, copses, lakes and meadows grazed by cattle and sheep....The name ha-ha derives from the explanation that a stranger might make upon coming upon such a ditch unexpectedly from the top of the wall. An experience of this kind could, of course, be highly dangerous to the unwary."
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