Corner View: Monochrome

 I especially liked how this turned out.  It's a little barn all by itself in a field near where I get my hair done.

 The next few pictures were taken in a cemetery that overlooks part of our small town.  We had had a deep snow and I trudged up there to get some shots.

For more monochrome, go on over to Francesca's.

A farm, an old Quaker Meeting House, and fall

 This is the farm showing the barns and the sales building which I featured last week here.

 Up the lane from the Doudna Fruit Farm is the old Quaker meeting house.  The Doudna family is a prominent local Quaker family. This meeting house is no longer used.  The Quakers meet at a building on the Friends Olney School campus--a Quaker boarding high school about 3 minutes from our  house.  (An aside to this is that the previous owners of our farm house met while attending Olney).  The meeting house shown is a twenty minute drive from town deep into the countryside on a narrow, winding road.

The outhouses. Possibly his and hers. I wonder why one is painted and maintained and the other is not?

I hope you all have a great week!

Fall and an old family business/farm

Weekend before this past one, we went hunting fall leaves with the camera.  This is an old local family's farm.  They sold fruit for years.  They no longer sell, but the sign is still up at the entrance to their farm.

Corner View:Contrast--one barn and four seasons

One Barn and Four Seasons

Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter

And in contrast with weather in some of the other corner views, I present a photo of fall in Southeast Ohio!

Ready for Fall-- Photos of Barns and Countryside and Five-Minute Friday

 The five-minute prompt is "Ready."  My post is at the end of the photos.  I decided to highlight some of my  fall countryside and barn pictures.  The three barns are some of my favorite ones.

 This is my husband's family farm.  It  has long been in other folks' 'hands', but he still refers to it as Grandpa and Grandma Butler's farm.  I use the photo to the right on the back of the photo cards I make with my barn pics.

 The color below is hard to believe but it's real and not due to 'playing with the camera'.

 This was one of the first set of barn photos I made.  It remains one of my top five favorites.

I have not made a card with this one, but may do so the next time I create my note cards.

 This is leaning a bit more towards winter but I love the faded red of the barn.  It's stuck back on a hillside behind a much bigger barn that demands attention but is not as picturesque as this one.

Five-Minute Friday: Go -
I'm ready for fall
for the crisp air,
the vivid reds, oranges, and yellows
of the leaves and plants
as the earth prepares for winter.
I'm ready for the bright pumpkins
and bumpy gourds that
gather in wooden bowls,
mums clustered on
bales of hay
while the scarecrows
buddy up to decorate
the front yard..
It's almost Pumpkin Festival time,
big 'doings' in this small town;
my front yard exhibit
is done
with the  help
of an Irish lass
I call my granddaughter.
I am ready for fall.
Stop.

Go over to Kate's for more five-minute-Friday posts.

Barn and last week

This is a barn in Caldwell, Ohio.  It is part of a public estate and the upper part is used for weddings.

 Cool wagon, huh?!

Last week was a  long week for being only four days.  The big bomb dropped on us was a new four-page lesson plan that has to be done for each unit.  For some of us, that is at least two in a nine-week-grading period.  It is enough of a tough task that I will be handing my resignation in early instead of at the end of the year.  I will still wait and go then, but it will be official sooner.  That will free me from some of the other requirements---this was given as an incentive to announce early so they can hire before other school districts.
Other than that, my week was great!
Hope you have a wonderful week!

Nature Photo: A Deserted Barn Overtaken by Nature

 This is one of my favorite barn photos. In fact, I made note cards out of one of the many photos I have of this deserted barn and its spring house (front rt.- hand corner).

  Spring houses were used somewhat as refrigerators.  Even if there wasn't a spring, just building most of it into a hillside kept it significantly cooler than anywhere else. Butter and milk could be kept there as well as anything that needed to be kept for awhile.

 I love the mix of rust, weathered wood, a posted sign, and overgrown wild flowers.

 Like many barns in this hilly area of Southeastern Ohio, the barn is built into a hillside.    The front and first floor are level with the road and the back and lower floor are level with a back field.  Usually the bottom was used for livestock and the first level stored machinery and tools.  The top or third level was used to store hay.