#implements

Imbrex ferreus extractorius. Iron gardening tool for extracting bulbs. Flora, ouero, Cultura di fiori. Rome, 1638. Giovanni Battista Ferrari.

With a billowing ribbon used to present the label.

Rocks of ages

At first glance, you would never know that our 12 acres - woods, mainly - was once part of a farm.

The crops are long gone, but the evidence of agriculture is here - in a couple of pieces of vintage implements abandoned in our woods and in the large rock piles scattered around the property.

I know the why of it; even a city boy can deduce that rocks and farming don't mix; they're hauled from tillable land and dumped in spots too low to plow.

But I wonder about the who, when and how.

Research tells me that until around 1920, draft animals - horses and mules - were the main source of power on farms. So it's possible that at least some of these rocks arrived at their final resting place on horse-drawn wagons.

Just a half million simoleons or so and this sweet Versatile 610 DeltaTrack tractor could be yours!

Necromancer sculpture