March 28, 2012
-
Garden/Yard
Day Six of the Home Challenge!
Rats! I don’t really have a garden/yard either! I guess I’ll just post some pics of the yard I grew up with in Iowa.
Post a Comment
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Day Six of the Home Challenge!
Rats! I don’t really have a garden/yard either! I guess I’ll just post some pics of the yard I grew up with in Iowa.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Comments (13)
that’s really pretty!
I found the state of Iowa to be most beautiful. I think you were fortunate to have grown up there. (except in the winters, of course)
It looks straight out of a movie!
Beautiful!
this is not trivial. I walked through Newark, NJ holding a photo (like one of these) of an unrepeatable, transient, moment of nature, up in front of me, as if I were walking on a nature path. vn. ty.
@Semper_medusa - Thanks! Sadly I won’t ever be able to go back since my dad moved to Wyoming; now some one else lives there. But I’m so thankful I took a ton of pictures on my last visit, including these gems.
@Kellsbella - You are a blessed soul indeed; so many people don’t even know where Iowa is let alone find it beautiful! But I love it so much, and I was so blessed to have grown up there. And yes, some of the winters were rough but it was so much fun to tunnel through the big drifts of snow as a kid with my brother.
@tgwiy - I do admit this little digital camera of mine, if your hand is steady enough, takes some superb shots!
@mortimerZilch - I guess you’d have to walk like that if NJ is anything like one of my college professors used to describe it!
Indeed…itsrather sad
Beautiful! Looks like what I remember my grandparents’ farm being like…I grew up as much out there as I did “in town” at home. I still have the layout, imagery, smells and colors memorized like the back of my hand. A beloved place.
Beautiful yard
Funny you should mention this. I was just going to ask if the church does a produce garden to help feed families?
No wonder you turned out so well – you grew up in Gods Country! Did something grow in the tractor tire or was it a sand/dirt pile play area type thing?
I wanna live on your farm! Perhaps you can turn the property into a half-way house for wayward pirates!
HA!
Sail on… sail on!!!
@dreadpirate - My siblings and I used to play pirates once in a while! Our driveway has does a sort of loop and thus leaves a little, oblong “island” of grass in the middle where the big farm light is. We used to pretend that the little “island” was a ship and the tall, wooden pole on which the light was mounted was a mast. We would hang a big white sheet on it for a sail and bam. Pirate ship.
@hesacontradiction - Some churches do things like that! It all depends on what kind of property the church has and who they have available to tend to the garden, the harvest, etc. Many monasteries and convents also have gardens in which they grow their own produce.
@mlbncsga - The tractor tire and the dirt/sand area under that tree was a place for play; an archaeological investigation of that area will yield the remains of many firecrackers, plastic army men, matchbox cars and who knows what else. But, since we’ve all grow up, so have the weeds, grasses and little tree-lings in that beloved patch of earth.