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Farm Pictures
I thought I would record some pictures from my grandma's farm. For those of you who have never seen a rural Virginia farm, it might be interesting. Plus it gives me a place to keep the pictures where I can share them with others. For those of you wanting the usual spiel? It's coming.
When you're 94, you don't keep the farm up anymore, but you can still see the Virginia pines and cedar and rolling hills as you look out from the yard
One strategy older people use with their land is to let younger farmers use it for hay. Here you can see the hay is cut and waiting on the bailer
A winding gravel road leaves the farm in the distance
Not much use for a barn for the last decade or two, so it's barely hanging on. Another 5-10 years and this will probably be rubble
The house was tough to get a picture of, since there are so many trees around it! As you can see, perhaps "collection of shacks" might be a better term than farmhouse. It looks like the house was built in various stages over many years. My family moved in around 1959. There used to be sharecroppers' houses on the farm as well. These fell down about 15 years ago.
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