March 28

We have an oak leaf hydrangea near our front porch. I love seeing how the leaves slowly unfurl in the Spring.

March 26

This is another barn I found when we were in Kentucky. I always like barns that show a little wear and tear, and this one has that. I love the shape of this barn and the worn paint.
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March 18

I found this old barn when we were in Kentucky. I love the peak at the top and I wonder what it looked like in it's prime.

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March 18

We're having beautiful weather here with much warmer temperatures than normal. It's looking like Spring with the crocus blooming and the trees budding.
I'm loving it!

March 15

In honor of Saint Patrick's Day, this man came to the Nursing Home I work at, to play and sing some Irish music. He played these bagpipes and some type of old Irish flute.
It was fun to listen to and our residents really enjoyed it!

March 12

I took this picture a few weeks ago after a heavy snow. I love the weathered wood, the row of windows and the fence in the front.

Here's the back of the barn. Aren't these some great looking cows?

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March 5

Isn't this a great barn? I like its shape, the weathered wood, the setting and the stone foundation. I also like its story.
This barn belongs to my husbands brother. It started out in life as a much bigger barn, on a different property. When my BIL noticed a barn that was falling apart, he offered to take it down in exchange for the wood. He salvaged what he could and started building this barn on his property. He did much of the work with hand tools, and one day had a barn raising with many friends, family and people from church. The barn wasn't finished on that day but a lot was done.
We've all seen barns that were falling apart and I love how he took that old barn and made something beautiful and useful from it.

Here's a closer shot of the old implement in front of that stone foundation.


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February 28

When we were in Kentucky for Andy's homecoming, we went to Fort Donelson, a Civil War battlefield. We were thrilled to spot this bald eagle there. It was one of the highlights of our trip!

February 27

This was one of the nicest barns we saw in Kentucky. Even the fences were well kept up! We noticed that a lot of the barns there had the unusual peak off the front and there were a lot of black barns, which I've never seen here in Michigan.


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February 23

This is painted on the side of a building we visited in Nashville. It's the old Marathon Automobile building, which is now the site of Antique Archeology, a store run by Mike Wolfe of American Pickers on the History Channel. This building is beautiful, with old wood floors and brick walls, but the exterior is also beautiful and I loved this painting on the side of it.