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<\/a><\/p>\nBales of hay laying in the fields assures the farmer he will have feed for his cows this Winter.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen my daddy baling hay many times while my brothers walked along behind the wagon he would pull and stacked the hay bales that would taken into the barn.\u00a0 So much of the hay baled today are the big round bales and oftentimes they are left out in the field.<\/p>\n We saw this huge field of hay bales and it looked so picturesque.<\/p>\n The farmer’s pond was below the hayfield and I bet his cows were standing around it on this hot day getting a cool drink of water.<\/p>\n Farmers use to have barns that looked like this.\u00a0 So many barns are going into disrepair.<\/p>\n Like this one. One time this was a grand barn full of animals and hay.\u00a0 Now it stands as a sad reminder that if you don’t repair a roof, the rest of the building will soon be destroyed by the wind and rain.<\/p>\n It’s what happened to the barn on my family’s farm after it was sold.\u00a0 The roof came off and the barn caved in. So sad.<\/p>\n At one time a farmer’s wife probably planted this rose and now it grows wild along the fence beside the old barn.\u00a0 This barn looks like someone takes care of it.<\/p>\n Barns aren’t the only buildings that are falling into the ground. Old houses pepper the landscape along the backroads of Indiana.<\/p>\n Then we pass well cared for homesteads that you know the people love and want to keep it up.\u00a0 This house is just beautiful and all the out buildings are in very good repair.<\/p>\n We couldn’t decide whether this was a newly built barn or someone’s house.\u00a0 It has a lot of windows, but it looks like a barn.<\/p>\n We wondered why the trees were like this in just his area and we saw this sign.<\/p>\n Pin Oak trees in a wetland.<\/p>\n Such a sweet picture of mama and her baby.<\/p>\n We passed the Hoosier Horse Camp where people can bring their horses and camp and there are covered stalls outdoors for the horses to stay in when they aren’t being ridden.\u00a0 How much fun would that be to camp with your horse?<\/p>\n There were ponds in many yards and fields.<\/p>\n Someone had a mailbox high in the air and had Air Mail painted on it.<\/p>\n Caution:\u00a0 Death scene ahead!!\u00a0 If you don’t want to see it, don’t scroll any farther.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We came across this grisly scene.<\/p>\n A dead deer in a field and many turkey vultures having their dinner.<\/p>\n There was a bunch of them. We disturbed them when they stopped and many flew away.<\/p>\n This one refused to budge.\u00a0 I call these birds God’s scavengers because they scavenge the countryside in roads and fields and eat all the dead animals they find. I can see them lazily skimming the air currents above our house all the time looking for some small animal to eat.\u00a0 I tell them to stay away from my chickens!\u00a0 If not for these birds, there would be a lot of dead animals laying around and smelling so I appreciate them.<\/p>\n Our ride took us to Madison, Indiana, a little town on the Ohio River. It has a lot of cute little shops and it has many tourists that come visit.\u00a0 I use to always come here for fabric at Margie’s fabric shop, before quilting became a fad, because she carried the old reproduction fabrics I could not find anywhere else.\u00a0 There is a wonderful antique mall here and a park along the river with benches all along it where people can come sit and watch the boats go by.\u00a0 They have a regatta every year with speed boats and that brings thousands to this tiny town.\u00a0 David and I found a bench and sat and watched all the river activity.<\/p>\n We saw this bird sitting on a rock looking for fish.<\/p>\n The more pictures I took of it, the longer its neck seemed to get!<\/p>\n There were several ducks swimming on the river and down the way, children were leaping off a pier and swimming. Oh, to be a kid again.<\/p>\n Madison has a beautiful courthouse and this statue on its lawn.<\/p>\n We saw this tree all a bloom, but I didn’t know what kind it was.<\/p>\n It was loaded with white flowers.<\/p>\n Anyone know what this is?\u00a0 It sure was pretty.<\/p>\n I have the sweetest little plant in my kitchen garden called Mallow and this year it has flowered very well.<\/p>\n The flowers look like tiny Rose of Sharon flowers.<\/p>\n I am going to have to try to paint these.\u00a0 They are so pretty.<\/p>\n I’ve been doing some projects and this is one of them.<\/p>\n That white mailbox I showed you a while ago is now painted.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n