It’s been said that good fences make good neighbors, perhaps they do. I always enjoy seeing fences, there’s just something about a fence that I like. It doesn’t have to be pretty, neat or straight, I just love a fence. I have a fence here at Chiot’s Run, it’s a weathered wooden fence and makes it’s way into a lot of my photos.
I’ve photographed many in my travels far away and close to home; from Scott and Helen Nearing’s stone walls, to Eliot Coleman’s plastic stapled fence, from a giant clipped hedge to a beautiful cottage border by a fence in Bar Harbor Maine, here are a few of my fence photos.
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Around here, most fences serve one of two purposes: to keep livestock contained or to signify the border of someone’s property. I think I love old fences best; those with aged hardware – that show a time gone by.
Hey Kim here. When I think of fence I usually think of the doggone camel and how I am eternally fixing them due to him leaning over them. But sometimes I go out at dawn and our fences seem to take on a whole different feel…
Or when they are covered with ice…
I am so very glad for our fence to keep the goats out of the garden…
And the kids out of the chickens…
I also love fences because they give you a vertical plane on which to grow things like sunflowers, beans or peas.
Most of our fences are wire with wooden and metal posts…very utilitarian.
This is a wooden fence that our elderly neighbor put in over 30 years ago…LOVE it!
Now if I could just protect my fences from this…
What’s your favorite kind of fencing material?
I sure agree with you! Fences have some character that is for sure! We have a lot of barb and electric but hopefully next year we will get bored fence in before the end of the next year.
Around here we’ve been using stockade panels. http://www.mysuburbanhomestead.com/goat-fencing/
Love the photos… and the camel?!