and beyond and i decided to when i retired to return to jericho i was born in montpellier vermont years ago and wanted but wanted to keep my roots in jericho to remain in the town where i was raised so i i had this house built in two thousand and three and of course the garden as you see today so for a long time you did not live around here you were abroad yes i lived abroad for many years but i came back and forth of course always tomorrow home with my family here but i worked abroad yes for forty two the the blue stone terrace which were sitting on your stone wall and i wanted to keep it in the vermont vernacular and to tell you of course with the other stone walls which surround the house and the property so it works out very well for ties in very nicely here young on our left this is these are the hydrangea family and they are climbing hydrangeas but we keep them trimmed so that i like the the pillars to have the survey poll for the railroads which was used on the burlington and the boil railroad and it's kind of faded it was red and white and used by the railroad crews to laying the ties you see and the railroad bed to be sure that it smooths when the railroad went over because we're right here the sun central vermont railroad still is working thank goodness it's right here next to us you have to railroad yeah right down here and as you mentioned in the winter  there's very unique there's the railroad bridge here has four bridge segments one of the few in the united states still operating and so in the winter i see it very clearly it's like your calder sculpture it's very attractive in the snow to see the four railroad bridges when i grew up young of course this here was a pasture for dairy cows for probably jerseys from the bishop the rogers farm next door and this here was what they would be termed a night past year it's where you put the cows out after milking in the afternoon late afternoon night and these are day lilies which i plan to have the circle of the to extend around beyond the blueberry hill and and your handicap it's very nice design you mentioned earlier about the stone wall which i wanted of course to reflect the vermont vernacular and if you'll notice th the wall is designed to for the contours of the hill and of course these serpentine walls were very common again in the eighteenth and nineteenth century both here in the united states new england to get the early spring sun to heat their plants and of course they're very common in england the famous ones the the sac will west and says in her store and no thomas jefferson of course had them extensively at the monitor cello and there in charlottesville virginia but i think it it ties in very nicely you see with the lovely roses again day lilies how was this way you started what was it that you came here well it was a typical open vermont year say above the the river as you have noted had a very nice kathleen ryan from burlington landscape architect did the original design to integrate both the house which my niece laurie buxton designed with the garden on this hillside location this hillside site then the farrelly farm landscape company from monckton todd feral and his staff installed planted all the trees and everything and then the gardening was put in some by michael scott and by the the farrelly farm but jen kennedy jennifer kennedy from  moved in on july fourteenth the national french national day of the cantars in two thousand and three so i've been here for eleven years what i think is remarkable also is that it now looks like a and established a landscape garden even in the short span of mother nature is i've been blessed with the results yeah it is it is such a logical solution for  being on this hillside and then you having to go around in a wheelchair and starting from those requirements you have this solution it's makes it beautiful and so logical yes and come and live here because that it has a long history than a fall house is at the logical place with a saying you are here only eleven years so you had to create this logic in a shorter time was very very perceptive comments and then as you know the certainly the hillside cape type houses or even the federal houses in our villages were given were very much cited because of the climate the way the sun came up for natural heating we talk about solar energy today but they were just aware in that era two hundred years ago of the heat from the sun for these this mountain cold climate  didn't have trophy houses in the eighteenth or nineteenth century as i find these rather unattractive new type of architecture which doesn't really fit the the bill landscape and but that's why we go through board thank you very much for that sharing this beautiful place down there coming out about it thank you well delighted and thank you very much for visiting and very nice speaking with you