Pope Farm Park

Today Jimmy and I visited Pope Farm Park. The park is about a mile from our apartment. It was beautiful. The parked was given to the town of Middleton by the Pope Family to be kept has a "farm park" The main goal of the park is to preserve farming by reminding people of its importance to the world. Another goal of the park is to preserve the prairie and glacial land formations.

Jimmy and I have developed a whole new vocabulary concerning topography: kettles, moraines, glacial ridges. All of which were created when glaciers covered this part of the country. Fortunately, the glacier did not flatten Wisconsin as it did Illinois. Here the glacier pushed land to form moraines and glacial ridges. It also formed kettles which is when rubble was on top of the glacier then the glacier melted and created a hold or sink area.

The farm includes grassed walking trails through many types of fields: corn, barley, wheat and soybean. There is also a field of sunflowers.

Here are the pictures from our walk:

As you enter the park you walk up a gravel path lined with a rock wall. There is a picnic area at the top of the hill.

This is a view while walking the trail.



The left is corn, the dark green on the right are soybeans.



This is a view of the sunflower field. They are facing opposite the camera. Their flowers follow the sun.
Here they are! All facing me. They were so pretty.


This is a view of the Middleton country-side.
Here is Jimmy reading a sign about the land formations. If you look closely and I mean very closely you can see the Lake Mendota. You can actually see the capitol from here as well but the camera just doesn't capture it very well.

bye bye for now. anna