Mid-winter Evening Garden Tour Warms Visitors

Two dozen brave souls (including several families) enjoyed the Wakefield Estate’s first Mid-winter Evening Garden Tour on Saturday, January 22. Several of the estate’s older and most handsome trees were illuminated with uplighting providing a dramatic spectacle against the black night sky. Under the added light of the nearly full moon bouncing off the brilliant white snow, visitors strolled through the garden on paths the Wakefield staff had etched out of the deep snow with a snow blower. Before and after their walks, everyone congregated in the estate’s Front Garden, where a fire pit was ablaze in the large stone bird bath offering a chance to warm up or toast a marshmallow or sausage.