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.

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~Tom’s Barn Collective

~Shadow Shot Sunday2

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

~Skywatch Friday

~Inspired Sundays

Spring Skies and Shadows

I have posted pictures of our Kerrs Creek Baptist Church, but they have been taken in the winter and not from this perspective. Today the sky was magical. The creek is carrying lots of water because we have had lots of rain. More coming tonight.

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Skywatch Friday

Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Inspired Sunday

Are You Tired?

This sign is hanging on the old iron fence in front of Buddy’s family’s church...

Trinity Methodist Church here in Lexington, Virginia

These are the rocking chairs the sign is referring to. The nurses from my doctor’s office across the street come over here on warm days to eat their lunches.

It is a very simplistic church inside but the simplicity makes it especially beautiful..

I found this to be a bit interesting.....who am I supposed to feel kicking...Santa...the Devil...the Christ Child about to be born? I do not have the slightest idea, but since it is Christmas I will have to go with my last suggestion. What do you all think? Bud says it has to be the last.

It’s history goes back a long, long time.

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Signs2

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Inspired Sunday

Church in a Cabin

This has to be one of my favorite country churches...a real log cabin structure with a little spire. It’s in West Virginia just as you turn up the access road to Beartown State Park. Each time we go to Beartown I fall more in love with it. Can you imagine getting married in this precious church?

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Fayetteville, WV, Presbyterian Church

Bud and I went to Fayetteville, WV, yesterday for him to compete in a 25K + Trail Run today. While he was running through the woods for 5 hours, I walked all around town looking for churches to photograph. I found quite a few which I will post in the weeks to come. The was the newest of the ones I saw.

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Rural Virginia and West Virginia

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1. Race Spirit Booster and an Unusual Container

This girl with her funky car would move from place to place all day long cheering on the runners through their LONG rainy run. She asked me what my husband's name was so she could be sure to yell out his name. I told her he would be the last one...way, way back from the pack, and wearing yellow :-) She had the biggest, cutest grin.

Now, to the container. Does anyone know what it is? There were many of them out by the highway. Some were wood and other plastic. I am thinking they were place to put your garbage bags for pick up.

2. A Quilt Barn

Of all the farms and barns we saw, this was the only quilt barn. The home place and all the outbuildings were beautifully kept...a very pretty rural scene.

3. Cows

All along the highway we would pass farms with cows grazing and little sheds like this one. This time we were able to pull off the road so I could get several shots of the same farm.

4. Finally, a Green Gate

5.Solomon's Chapel ~ U. B. Church (United Baptist???) It was tiny.

6. Ingalls Overlook ~ Virginia

We stopped here on our way home. The fog was finally lifting and the rains were gone. The views were out of this world. Buddy is that little yellow blog to the left of the "sharp turn" signage shooting

the Blue Ridge Mts. with his trusty iPhone.

7. Train Tracks in the Little Town of Goshen, VA
When we got here, we were about 5 miles from the house. As always, we had to stop the car,  go stand on the old tracks and takes pictures. It is something we always do when we go through the little town.

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Macro Monday 2
Mosaic Monday

Our World Tuesday

Rurality Blog Hop

Friday Fences

Skywatch Friday
Scenic Weekends

Weekend in Black and White

Inspired Sunday

Lexington Presbyterian Church

Lexington Presbyterian Church

The Greek Revival structure, designed by Thomas U. Walters, was completed in 1845. General Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson was a member of this church from the year of his arrival in 1851 as a professor at the Virginia Military Institute until his death in 1863. Until his departure from Lexington in April of 1861, Jackson taught a Sunday School Class that was well-attended by the town's African-American population. Jackson's next return to Lexington was for burial in the Presbyterian Cemetery on 15 May 1863. The cemetery has since been renamed the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery.

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A Chapel in a House

This little church was on the road just before we turned off to wind up the mountain to where Bud's race was starting. I stopped to take pictures of it after depositing him. It was raining, and there was a dog barking fiercely at me from not far enough down the road so these two shots were snapped faster than a jack rabbit hops! I was back in my car before you could say "Move It" I was so scared. ! I just couldn't believe I was seeing a church in a little old house and wondered if the preacher lived there, too. That would be living close to where you worked. 

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Some Skies from Our Little Corner of the World

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Skywatch Friday

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Inspired Sunday.