Warwick Furnace Farm

It is lavender season! I try to get down to Maryland as much as possible to see my daughter and family. I was lucky enough to get three days off in a row. So, I knew I would take the long way home. So, I was looking around the route home for a lavender farm. It was so nice to get off of Route 95 and travel the Lancaster area. I could have done without all the guns for sale and fireworks signs. But, to see the occasional horse and buggy, and with a stop at Turkey Hill Experience, I was on my way to a nice day. But, the experience became dream like. It was as if I stepped into a page of Little Women in the twenty first century. The story of the farm is the parents of the four daughters were downsizing from living in Manhatten. And, they ended up buying this property only a few years ago. Warwick Furnace Farm is astounding. Thinking it like the lavender fields in Provence. It is by appointment only. And, I was treated to the utmost attention. I was able to ask questions and was amazed at the answers. I knew of french and english lavender and always wondered if there was american lavender. There is! It is grown in Pennsylvania. I did take home a bottle of the american essential oil. They do grow all three on the farm. I was able to sit, and look at the fields. And, take my pictures with quotes. Each day this week I will take you on a journey of this slice of heaven in Pennsylvania. I am starting with the fields which you are only able to see by walking up a hill. I hope to be able to paint there, some day. It probably is the most inspirational place I have ever seen in my life. Except, for the ocean. But, the ocean lately, has become stressful for me. Too much, to talk about that, now. But, a lavender field on top of a hill, with the only building in sight is a farm. And, not a sound of a highway nearby. And, the smell of lavender through out the air. It is heavenly.