first bike ride of the season

it was great to get on the bike and take a ride ,took some pictures along the way let me get the bike down from hibernation,and lets go the first stop,,,there used to be a big farmhouse here and a big dairy barn,the posts for the step entrance is all thats left,a big office building sits where the fields were we are very fortunate,within riding distance there is an old side road with four farms and a cemetary,thats all there is on the whole road,very rare to find a road like that around us,Here is one of the old houses on the side road and you didnt think this post would be tractor related ,,,did you,,, I didnt see any!! well ,we made it to the end of the street,lets go back lets stop off by the old barn the cemetary is open,but only some of the driveway is plowed,we will have to walk in,The church is in town,but the old cemetary is on this side road,lets see how old some of the stones are some with no writing left on them,I hope you dont mind,but I Think of it as an interesting part of history to stop off here , lets head back home one more stop,,,,this little building used to be the towns post office we made it,ours is the white house on the right,,,,thanks for taking the ride with me,my daughter usually goes with dad ,but she is not home

Great pictures. You still have a lot of snow on the
ground but it looks like it is melting pretty good.
We did see a little snow coming thru the mountains
Saturday but the weather has been great so far

In a couple of those pics, I see things are "greening" up nicely! Thanks for shareing.

Great pictures, my mil grandfather owned an IH dealership in New Egypt, NJ. She still has cousins there that we visit, nice area. Greg

Is that a Trek bike you're riding? I have a Diamondback.

its a 20 dollar garage sale huffy!

love the pics, I have 2 old cemetaries within 1/2 mile of my house, one has no readable (to me) names and dates, my 87 yo dad knows who some were- if he remembers correctly. the other has readable stones, we are lucky to live in the time with modern medicine, lots of families lost small childern to different diseases easily treated now

real nice Larry - thanks! I used to hunt on some state land in NW corner of MO and there is an old cemetary with some stones too worn to read. The ones that can be read shows folks didn't live too long. This is near the town of Forbes.

Nice little town there!

I enjoy cemetery history, nothing morbid, ghostly,
or demonic, (don't believe any of that!) just
interesting how hard life was just a few years
back.

Went on vacation to Creede Co. several years ago.
There was a museum in town, stories of lots of
famous gun slingers, card sharks and ladies of
the... well you can guess... Went up to the old
cemetery, there they were, safely underground, not
bothering anyone anymore! LOL

But sadly, life was hard. Babies born in the
winter didn't make it. Epidemics wiped out large
numbers. Average age was 30's-40's.

Larry - Your photos make me envious! My bikes are still hanging in the garage and probably will be a while yet. Forecast is for 8" - 12" of snow here tomorrow.

I did however enjoy a nice day skiing today...

Enjoyed the ride, thanks for taking us along!

Nice photos. There are some OLD tombstones there.

Thanks for the great pictures, we are looking forward to visiting our son in New Brunswick, NJ next month. Your pictures remind me of the area that my BIL used to live in near Leeds, NY.

Great post, Larry. Enjoyed the tour.

Nice pictures Larry. Our snowpack in central Indiana is basically gone, until tomorrow....

I remember passing through a cemetary and reading on a
marker friend as you pass by stop and say a prayer for as
you are now so once was i . interesting thought when you
think of this winter and the struggles they had to feed and
care for there farms and familys

Old cemeteries can be interesting. There's one about 2 miles from my childhood home. It is across the road from the site of Fort Heness, built by the settlers in the 1850's for protection from an anticipated Indian attack that never materialized. Luckily, the grandson of one of the original settlers (the James family- 1840's) was a historian, and he chronicled much of the history in a book. He also built a plaque at the Ft. Henness site, showing where each family's room in the fort was located. Then you can go across the road, and find where they're all buried. One was Chas. Byles, who homesteaded the farm I grew up on. He was also the local preacher.

Nice pictures. I have a cemetery about 2 miles from our farm that my ggg gandmother is buried in 1857 from WV. Lots of history in them.

To clean the stones, use bleach or sometimes shaving cream to be able to read them. A friend has restored many stones by recarving them and epoxying them back on their base straight and level.