The Cheshire Hunt is running a contest in which they post a photo of the greater Unionville area each week and you have to identify where it is. I didn't find out about it until Week 2, which was easy (a farm on Green Valley Road). Week 3 was even easier (The Whip). Week 4, I needed some help but got the right answer (Fairview Road at Doe Run Church Road).
But week 5 was a doozy! I looked at the photo -- a coop, a snowy field, trees, cattle fencing -- and thought, I've seen that a million times. But trying to find it, as we discovered, is an entirely different matter.
We started our search on Apple Grove Road and Hilltop View Road, then took an invigorating hike through the snow- and ice-covered paths in the Laurels. Then we drove all over God's creation, gravel roads and paved, west to Runnymede and Cochranville (where we stopped for gas and coffee at the Turkey Hill), north to Strasburg Road, south to London Grove Road via Lamborntown Road.
We asked a woman on horseback near St. Malachi if she recognized the photo; she gave us a few suggestions that didn't pan out. We asked Ed at the Unionville Feed Mill; he said try Doe Run Church Road. We did, and that didn't work either, but on Doe Run Church near Route 82 we did see two longhorns in a field with a fox. (Elsewhere in our travels we spotted a bluebird, a red-tailed hawk, and a fox in a snowy field pouncing on a mouse.)
We enlisted the aid of a Springdell friend who sometimes hunts with Cheshire. She said she'd been over every coop around, and even she didn't recognize it.
At about 4:30 p.m. -- we'd been at it since lunchtime -- we gave up. Susan's parting words were, "Try Tapeworm Road on your way home."
No luck.
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