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An Amish buggy travelling Warwick Road just outside Lancaster, PA.

Lancaster Co. is a noted home of many Amish who prosper in its

agricultural background.

An Amish buggy navigates along Warwick Road in Lancaster Co., PA.

The sharing of roadways between autos and buggies is often frought

with disasterous collisions.

A cold January and now a snowy early February have left many locals

short on firewood. So, it is back to the woodpile -in the snow- not a trip

calculated in the Fall.

A cold but snowless January and the promise of a similar February; the

question arises - it there enough? The pale sun on a clold morning

seems to say not.

A settlement home from the early to mid 19th Cent.lies abandond alond

the Lititz Run in Lancaster, Co., PA.

A well maintained example example of 19th Americana in Lancaster

Co., Pa.

Sweeping the barnyard in preparation for Sabbath on an Amish farm

outside Lancaster, PA.

An Amish lad greets the local milk truck as it makes its alternate day

pick-up.

All contribute toward the success of a family farm in Amish country.

There are no idle hands.

A long abandoned wagon rests along the back fence of an Amish farm

outside Lancaster, PA.

The gathering of carts has become a ritual practiced regularly on the

American scene.

The centuries peel back as an Amish farmer in SE PA does his spring

plowing.

Abandoned stockyards of Lancaster, PA - typical of the brownscapes of

the older cities in the northeastern US.

Thawed out and in need of cleaning, a refridgerator of years past

welcomes anothe anothe Spring in Central Pennsylvania.

Caught between the highway and the bicycle, the Amish of Lancaster

County continue their simple ways.

Sepia version posted earlier this afternoon.

Caught between the highway and the bicycle, the Amish of Lancaster

County continue their simple ways.

Amish buggies lined in the yard during a wedding ceremony at the

house outside lancaster, PA.