It feels a world away from the landscape of fields, ranches and prairie to the north — land that nature lovers have been patiently working for years to conserve.
The area south of Hexham known as the Shire is an undulating landscape of fields and woods threaded by minor roads.
Far from security-conscious urban centers, Mr. Preston and his wife, Michelle, live with their two daughters and one son well away from main roads in a rustic landscape of fields and woods.
Its few vehicles were winched up the stairs many years ago, and are now stranded there, in an Arcadian landscape of fields and farmhouses, circled by jagged, snow-capped peaks.
When you drive along the country road that leads to Romero's farm, you go through a landscape of fields, passing a Colonial house or two and a couple of mobile homes that have been fixed up to resemble suburban tract houses.
But even with its variety, the show feels of a piece: a landscape of fields of sunflowers and an outdoor shot of Sun Ra performing in a glistening cape come from a sensibility that finds a visionary sparkle wherever it looks.
