7=3=16 ~ The Barn Collective in Green and Yellow

It is Sunday and time for Tom's Barn Collective.

This is a beautiful home and barn complex not too far from home. The yellow and green with the while windows and fencing make for such a lovely rural landscape.

6-26-16 ~ Steven's Barn and Our Old Land Rover

Once again it is time for Tom the Backroads Traveller's Barn Collective. Please some and join.

This is the old Steven's barn just down the road from us where STILL sits our old and beloved blue and white Land Rover.  It's has been resting there for way over 25 years. Gene is still wanting me to buy it back from his son even tho it probably does not run. Remember...it was my eldest son who after a driving lesson in the front field turned it over into the creek crossing our Bridge to Somewhere. I see it every time I go in or out of town and wish we still had it...all 6 miles to the gallon.

I just had to add this watercolor I finished yesterday. My precious Eloise has now finished elementary school and is off to middle school in September....oh, dear...now the fun really starts. I posted it on my Buttons for Baga art blog, but wanted to share it here, too. The little girls are all her pals. Some went to her school and some to other schools. The ones with the National Elementary Junior Honor Society scarves around their necks were at her school. Add one more thumbs up from me for my granddaughter's job well done!

6-19-16 ~ The Old Knick Red Barn

Once again it is time for Tom the Backroads Traveler's Barn Collective. Please join him with your pictures of barns you have seen and photographed. This is such a special little meme with all varieties and sizes of barns old and new...and even some that are falling down.

This barn sits across the road from us. It was owned by the Knick family who built our house...the one you all saw in the vintage picture I posted a while back. Larry had serious heart disease plus advanced diabetes but continued to live as our neighbor after a heart transplant for around 15 years. He was such a dear friend to Bud and me, and every time I got myself in a jam he would come and bail me out. I would get the riding mower hung up on a rock time and time again, and I was always trying to move furniture getting it stuck or turning it over. I didn't call Ghostbusters, though...I called Larry, and he came ASAP. The last thing he did was put me up a new mailbox with his grandson helping him. After he passed away the house sat empty for a long time, and then the remaining brothers and his widow sold it to the Zollman family. They have re-roofed the barn, added the quilt painting to the top, and moved in a little outbuilding. We miss out dear friend, but it is so nice to have someone living in the little green house once again.

Mr. Zollman usually has his white truck parked horizontally in from of the barn which made taking a picture of the new quilt addition not very nice. Then....one day I was coming home and I hit the jackpot...a sunny beautiful day, my iPhone with me, and no white truck.

I cropped the shot down as much as I could so you could see the little quilt square. 

I have always wanted a quilt block on our barn, so to have one across the road make me a very happy country girl. Maybe one day I will get one here. That would be icing on the cake.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL OF YOU DADS OUT THERE IN THE BLOGOSPHERE

3~11~16 My Favorite Backroad Pond

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.

 It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

~Ashley Montagu

This post is linked with:

Weekend Reflections

Shadowshot Sunday2

March 6, 2016 ~ Tom's Barn Collective ~ BARN ALERT

"It is a happy talent to know how to play."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 All of today's photos were taken with me hanging out the passenger window, iPhone gripped firmly in hand, and yelling..."Buddy, SLOW DOWN! SLOW DOWN! YOU"RE GOING TOO FAST."

A single white barn I caught on Bud's side of car. This one was taken with me hanging over the dashboard trying to keep rear view mirror out of photo.

 Another BARN ALERT barn with all of todaye photos taken with me hanging out the window with iPhone in hand and yelling..."Buddy, SLOW DAN...SLOW DOWN! Look at all that RED.

This horse trailer belongs to the barn above. I see a green John Deere something.

A New Barn Going Up

I have a hunch this could be a horse barn because this is an area of the county where lots of horse people live and there is even a special riding club out there. The Port-a-John adds such a lovely touch to this picture. I cannot help but giggle.

Close Up of the New Barn

I think these are their horses grazing.

This post from the horse country of Rockbridge County is linked with:

Toms the Back Road's Traveler's  Barn Collective.

February 25, 2016 ~ Red and White Barns and Blue Skies

My Patriotic Post

Red and White Barns and Blue Skies

On our way to Waynesboro, VA, for me to go to the Michael’s store with my trust 40% off coupon, we decided to drive over the back way. Since we were not in a hurry, I was able to pull off the road each time I wanted to and take pictures. Luckily there was a pull off on our side of the road and not on the other. Here are two of the barns we saw with the gorgeous sky overhead. It was the perfect day for a road trip.

This post is linked with:

Skywatch Friday

Tom’s Barn Collective

Shadow Shot Sunday 2

February 22, 2016 ~ Snider Farm For Sale

My eldest son - now 50 - grew up spending lots of time in this homeplace with one of his best friend who later went into the Coast Guard. It is the prettiest old home, but it was way too big for Mom and Dad once the children were gone. A number of years back they built a smaller one story home on some of their land. Today I thought I would drive up their road on my way from the grocery store, but was saddened to see the For Sale sign in the front yard. I know as we gown older things change, but there is something so secure about them remaining the way we have known them through the years. I stopped in the driveway and went all around taking pictures because I want to send them to my son. So this is My World on Tuesday for this week. A world that is changing and moving forward. It was a very cloudy and overcast day, but for some reason it was conducive to taking pictures with my iPhone.

The Snider Homeplace

The Old Chimney on Side of Home
I love the curved top on it and the old, old brick.

Barn to the Side of the Home

Small Outbuilding beside Home

 This looks like a real treasure of their old farm machinery, but I have no idea what it is. Shaver makes me think of lumber and I do see shavings around it. I am sure they have timber on their land.

Another Barn Located in the Side Field to the Right

The Mountain View from the Side Field

 This field is right behind the home and abuts the property where they have built their new home. Whatever this structure was, it is gone now.

 This is their new home. I just pulled off the side of the road and took this picture out my window. The land with the old homeplace is located in the opposite direction from the sign and around the curve on the left. Mrs. Snider and I taught school together, and in addition to farming Mr. Snider was on the Board of Supervisors for our Kerrs Creek District of Rockbridge County.

This post is linked with Our World Tuesday.

February 20, 2016 ~ The Old Farm at New Monmouth Presbyterian Church

"Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, 

you can get quite a lot done.”

~Ruth Asawa

This is a very old home about 7 miles from our house where two girls lived that I taught at least 25 years ago. At that time it had rockers on the front porch and was a happy place. It needed paint back then, but apparently a house can survive for years and years without a paint job. Now it is a bit lopsided and appears to be going downhill. No one has lived there in years, but the farm land and the barns are still in use with by the owners or someone renting it for their cattle and hay. Right now it is being used.

This is the home where two girls that I taught at least 25 years ago lived. At that time there were rocking chairs on the front porch and there were always children out in the yard. It has been vacated for years now, and as you can see is beginning to list a bit. It is interesting that there was no new paint on the house back then, and it is the same now. Someone that either own the property or rents it (that is my guess) is using the barns and grazing cattle. It is located across the road from New Monmouth Presbyterian Church.

This is not a very good picture, but it shows the outbuildings behind the house. Since I was on private property, I was using caution where I was stepping. There was a fence and I did not go over it...stand on it, yes, but not climb over it. The property is right on the Route 60 so anyone driving by knew exactly what I was doing.

This is the main barn.

And this is the other outbuilding behind the barn. The fence you see is the one I was balancing on to take the pictures. I was good...I didn’t do a face plant again.

This is New Monmouth Presbyterian Church which is across the street from the farm.

This post is linked with:

~Tom’s Barn Collective

~Shadow Shot Sunday2

~Theresa’s #101 Good Fences...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

~Skywatch Friday

~Inspired Sundays

February 4, 2016 ~ What a Difference a Day Makes

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES

Yesterday, February 3, 2016. our creek was flooding. Fortunately, the Homeplace is high enough that the house never floods. The yard becomes a swamp because of the underground springs up on the hill behind that overflow at time like these. There was no blue or a cloud in the sky yesterday...just fog and misery for the aches and the pains from Mr. Arthur on the bones and joints.

Today I had a doctor’s appointment, and on the way home I could not believe my eyes. Blue skies were popping through the gray and even some clouds. Like I said...What a Change a Day Makes.

This post linked with Good Fences and  Skywatch Friday.

#28 ~ Hidden Valley

Hidden Valley Homestead where Archeological Digs Continue

The Entrance

The Old Someplace and a Fw More More Pictures of It from Different Angles

Front Steps

Here the rain is moving in.

This is the kitchen house which was built later on. The original one burned.

It is now 2 accommodations - one upstairs and un downstairs. The bottom one has a kitchen and both have living rooms and fireplaces. This is where I would want to stay. 

Not in the house. This is way more cozy and comfy. 

As we were leaving the owners returned and the wife took me through this building.

There is a covered walkway from this building to the main house,

Steps to Entrance

  

Vintage Door Knocker...I bet it is the original.

All the fences are wood.

 

Original Springhouse

The Spring House Water Supply

Here is the pipe where the water comes in.

I have to believe that they have a well and pump now, 
because this is really rusted.

Another Pipe

Rear of Spring House

II have no clue what this container if for. 
The owners of the B and B were not there when 

we were walking all around the property so I could
not ask them my wealth of questions.

Old Living Quarters 

More Old Living Quarters

 A BIG Goat

Family of Goats Plus a Few Chickens for Fresh Eggs

This has been an archeological site for years and years and is now governed by the National Forest Service. I do remember hearing that the digs have produced prehistoric remains. The home is now under private ownership and is used as a beautiful B and B where they take pristine care of their historical treasure. The wife raises the goats and there are bunches of them. The following is all I could find on the internet, but we are going to go back to talk at length to the owners so I acn update the history of the home, the property, and the area.

this post is linked with:
Good Fences on Thursdays
Saturdays Critters
Camera -Critters
Scenic Sundays   (I cannot get this one to link up. I get to it and then the IP address turns to               some odd thing that is “for sale.”I do not know how to do it this week.)


Pictures taken with my iPhone 5C in late November 2015

Wiki:

Hidden Valley, also known as Warwickton, is a historic home located near Bacova, Bath County, Virginia. It was built in 1858, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure with a hipped roof in a Greek Revival / Late Victorian style. It has a rear ell. The front facade features a pedimented tetra-style portico with Ionic order columns, placed over the central three bays of the five-bay facade. The entranceway is styled after a design on Plate 28 in Asher Benjamin's stylebook, The Practical Carpenter (1835).^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.^[1]

References[edit]

1. ^ Jump up to:^a b Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Jump up^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved2013-05-12.
3. Jump up^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (October 1969). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hidden Valley" (PDF). and Accompanying photo