It’s now a fad to make these mildly, annoying rock piles. There is an old homestead near where I live that recently lost its elderly (wealthy) owner.
For years I enjoyed driving by her property and taking in the hilltop views and old field stone walls, envisioning the hard work the early farmers did clearing their fields of these...having heard of the owner’s passing I drove by to see what might be happening with the extensive, property. Behold there were now not one but many of these rock piles atop the fieldstone walls...like every 10 feet.
I can imagine the out of state “inheritors” kids running wild along the walls and gleefully, balancing as many rocks as they could find.
Likewise, you see them more and more as you drive the country roads.
While having a good time doing things like this is not at all “a bad thing” still, I feel it is a desecration of sorts, of the original (early farmer’s) intent to what the walls meant to him and his family.
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