Quaker farms

There were fields stretching on forever, broken up only by a river curling and swirling its way through the landscape. All around you goats and deer ran and lounged in the windy pastures, and crossing straight through the landscape ran a weed-ridden, gravel road.

The road stopped at a pleasant estate with a modest courtyard. The estate was old, and it was beginning to show here and there. A giant barn housed the hay for the winter, an outdoor kitchen including a clay oven was built to the side of the courtyard, and several grape vines climbed their way up and over the open gazebo to the side of the courtyard. The farm had a freeing feel to it, the sounds of nature, the creeking of wood of the farm buildings, and the serenity of nature all around contributed greatly to this