Time Passes

My son lives on a very old Dairy Farm. I'm quite sure he told me it is

over 100 years old. The barns and sheds attached truly are showing

their age. It makes it all the more interesting to explore. I did add a

few layers to add to the grungy appearance of the building. I tried

searching the name of the Farmer who owned the Dairy operation

but so far have not come up with much. Hopefully I will find some

information about how many generations did actually work this farm.

Very nice Gail... love the colors and the texture.

Brent

Gail,

Very nice colorful old house! Thanks for sharing.

Best regards, Tina

Oh, wow.  You've been out beating some bushes, haven't you, Gail?

 

Wonderful subject and treatment.

 

--Lannie

I like the processing Gail

Whirrrd..I just sent you a message, didn't know you were online! Thanks Ken, sure hope you are feeling a bit better and moving around easier. Broken bones are just no fun at all, especially in the summer!

Love the texture, chipped and faded color and the tight crop which de-emphasizes the building as such and highlights the geometrics. Outstanding work, Gail.

Sincere thanks Jack for sharing your thoughts on this composition. The property is so old and in need of repair, but if it was, there wouldn't be these interesting old spots to take images of.  Good to hear you liked it.

Thanks so much Lannie for your visit. I need to get back out and take some more pictures. So many angles etc. that could be investigated and used with all these interesting buildings.

Brent  - sincere thanks for your visit. I saw your most recent posts of the Scottish thistle and the 'Wave'. You sure had an eventful day. Good to hear no one was hurt!

Hello!!! I hope you are enjoying the days as summer winds down. I cannot believe it will be September next week.  Would love to see some more shots of your new Grandson, he is getting so big!

Love the mood here that you have created! Good eye and your treatment is wonderful.

Best Regards,

Peter

I love photos of houses that ooze personality! Photos that conjure all kinds of stories in the viewer's mind until the real story can be known (if ever). This photo is a superb example of that. Bravo!

I love these plank and logs old houses in the Americas! Here I think I see an addition of poster edges filter! I have done all my architecture pictures also with that filter! Very pleasing to my soul and eyes, Gail!

 

Best regards

 

PDE

As already stated the texture and color are awesome Gail. You've really taken it a step further and brought feeling and life to the image as well. I like the cart just sitting there....waiting to be used. Your PP is the best.

All the Best, Holger

Hi Gail,

In my experience, . . . old Dairy farms can, and usually do provide some unique opportunities. Of course, I suppose a lot of that statement of mine depends on just how long they have been out of operation.

Most around here have now been gone for sometime but, I do recall some 40 years ago when I was a young Teenager my folks bought many products from a local family that had a Dairy. We got our "whole" Milk in glass wide mouthed gallon jugs. Usually two gallons per week. ( I had three little Sisters).

My Mother used to separate the Cream from the top and she'd have us kids sit and sorta shake until we had made Butter. The "shaking action" was the substitute for not having a Butter Churn!

 

Oh, Mom's cooking was sooo good back then with "fresh milk & eggs" in every receipe.

 

That "Dairy Family" provided us with not only our Milk, but our eggs and in the Fall they harvested Maple and made Syrup & Molasses as well as their Bee hives for Honey. When we could afford it we also bought much of our Beef and Pork from them. 

By the late 1960's the "Farm Couples" older ages had slowed them down quite a bit and, although their Children carried on much of the operation for as long as they could, I think the USDA regulations finally made the operation non-profitable for the family to continue.

I visited that Dairy Farm location for the last time some twenty years ago and unfortunately the Children had sold it off and a newer housing project covered most of the 160 acres.

 

Your image here certainly makes me wish I had had the opportunity to photograph the many activities that went on around that farm in its "hey day." But, my photograhic desires had not yet kicked in and now I'm only left with the memories.

Your image with the Red painted siding, white doors and trim work, the weeds grown up around the foundation, the Tin roof and the Wheelbarrow ready have certainly "livened up" those memories!

Thanks!

 

Regards always,

Jim j.

Everyone has summed it up in the writing above - really well done! Best wishes.

beautiful rustic look to this image Gail...looks like an easier type of life even though perhaps harder in some ways as well...regards....David

Hi Gail,

  Beautiful rustic scene with wonderful colors, textures & lighting. Take care, Patsy

The editing mood have added a lot to the image .

Regards.

Yes, from what my son has told me, this was a very busy Dairy Farm.  He knows a bit about the family that owned it over the years.  The house on the property that they live in has a very large kitchen. Each time I am in it I can't help but think there were many children, and perhaps others who sat round that table after a long day working the farm. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts about this lifestyle.

What wonderful stories you shared. Thank you so much. This is truly the kind of response anyone would hope for when they post an image. If it brings back some good memories for someone, then you have really touched someone's 'heart strings'. Memories spent with your family and especially memories of your Mom's home cooking with the fresh eggs and your 'butter' :) I bet you could 'smell' breakfast as well!! Those were the days when 'milk' was really 'milk' and the same with the eggs and butter.  There have been so many changes since then and I don't know that it has been for the better.  I often watch Dr. Pol.  I don't know if you can get that program but I am amazed at how easily injured and sick cow's can get. I loved reading what you had to write. When I see an image that evokes feeling like that in me, it really gives me a good feeling and sense of what a good life I have had.

Cheers for now, keep in touch, Gail

Thanks so much to all who have visited, I apologise for not getting back to you today, will get to my replies in the next few days :) Gail

I love it!!! Great work as usual!!

Hugs!!

I agree, the abounding comments sum up that this is lovely and why.

I also, like the crop, the wheelbarrow, giving a sense of life in this worn building, your treatment of the greenery, and the gorgeous reds.  Looks between a painting and a photograph and very welcoming place to stroll by or come in for some pie, perhaps?