Homeland’s scenery has created most of the appeal for people to move there. Even though it is a suburban area, Homeland still has some wildlife, such as foxes, that residents can see on a regular basis (“The Homeland Foxes”).

This a picture of a fox that a resident saw in their back yard. http://www.homelandassociation.org/Fox%20Dec%202005.JPG

They have an array of over fifty of trees from indigenous, deciduous, and evergreens. A white oak, which was over 300 years old, was made Maryland’s Bicentennial Tree on Purlington Way (Stevens, 26). The lakes of Homeland are a landmark for this neighborhood. The lakes cannot be fished or swam in; they are there only for aesthetic purposes (Stevens, 27).

This is a picture of the lakes in 1894.http://www.mdhs.org/Library/Images/Mellon%20Images/Z6access/z6-1894.jpg

This is one of the lakes today (Taken by myself)

The lakes, even though they are not owned by the Homeland Association, meant so much to the residents of Homeland they opposed the destruction of the lakes in the 1970s. Judge Harris in the 1970s proposed to fill the lakes, since one of the small ones was filled in several years before. Besides the residents’ opposition, the budget was not realistic so the proposal never went into action. After the Judge Harris passed on, his daughter, ironically, dedicated a bench by the lakes to him (Petersons).