It could not be lined up any better, gate is clear, hope it don't wipe out the posts and bracing, you can see the fracture in the bark, figured on getting some rigging on it and pulling it down from a safe distance, I'm thinking mother nature might have different plans !
This ole maple has a lot of memories, clothes line hanger and pulleys still there, house and barns are a long gone, since about '97. I can remember being in the kitchen of the old victorian farm house, and looking out the back through the screen door out through and under the wrap around porch which was like a covered race track to youngster, at an ominous storm in the summertime, lurking with impending doom, as a young pre-school kid, it was surreal, an early memory, the huge hay barns, fences, fields with crops, neatly manicured back yard, with tall shade trees that kept it cool in the hottest weather. Beyond the 3rd photo, and you'd never know it was a drive through, mortise and tenon barn, with annex for cows, with stanchions my farmer friend used to marvel at the size of the hay mow, he told me after a fire, they had to use that barn, drive the cattle from his place on the road,(try that now!)and milk the old way. It looks like a jungle now, everytime I go down there, its like going back in time, and its just down the hill, milk shack still standing, I have to dig out the only photo I have of it in the 40's, shows everything the way it was, and now with the milkhouse the only thing left standing.
This ole maple has a lot of memories, clothes line hanger and pulleys still there, house and barns are a long gone, since about '97. I can remember being in the kitchen of the old victorian farm house, and looking out the back through the screen door out through and under the wrap around porch which was like a covered race track to youngster, at an ominous storm in the summertime, lurking with impending doom, as a young pre-school kid, it was surreal, an early memory, the huge hay barns, fences, fields with crops, neatly manicured back yard, with tall shade trees that kept it cool in the hottest weather. Beyond the 3rd photo, and you'd never know it was a drive through, mortise and tenon barn, with annex for cows, with stanchions my farmer friend used to marvel at the size of the hay mow, he told me after a fire, they had to use that barn, drive the cattle from his place on the road,(try that now!)and milk the old way. It looks like a jungle now, everytime I go down there, its like going back in time, and its just down the hill, milk shack still standing, I have to dig out the only photo I have of it in the 40's, shows everything the way it was, and now with the milkhouse the only thing left standing.