It’s been a week since Hall and Sara got married. We had such a fun time at the Bridesmaids’ Luncheon at the Swan House. Here I am with Amanda, Doris, Abigail and Anne. I don’t have a picture yet of us taken with Sara.Amanda and I left the luncheon and headed to Marietta. We had …
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Day 3, Part 2 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
In case you didn’t know, the 100th Meridian is at Cozad, Nebraska!We continued on Highway 30 through Nebraska from Cozad to Roscoe. We stopped there to get pictures of these old buildings.I wonder what Chamberlins was–a restaurant, a general store?While I was trying to find the right place to take pictures of the above buildings, …
Day 3, Part 1 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
Day 2 ended for us in York, Nebraska. We had stayed at the same hotel (Palmer’s Best Western) several years ago (maybe 5?) in York. We had left Laramie in the morning and went to Alma (Hardin County), Nebraska to do some genealogical research. Or as Tommy says, “We’re going to look for dead people.” …
A Flower not a Barn
As you have probably figured out by now, I’m always on the lookout for flowers to photograph. This thistle (others may call it a weed) was so pretty.
Day 2, Part 4 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
And yet another barn in the middle of corn!This was probably my favorite of all the barns we saw. But not because of the barn itself, it was the American Gothic painting on it. Pretty cool, huh? Just to the side of the barn was a ladder which led Tommy to believe that they are …
Day 2, Part 3 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
This (photo #1 and #2) barn was so cool. It was also quite large. There were several out buildings in close proximity. Some of the barns, such as the one below, were in quite good shape.Then we would see some like the one below which looks like it could fall down at any time. I …
Day 2, Part 2 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
We saw a lot of corn as we crossed Iowa. Some corn fields had barns smack in the middle like these.Hello Handsome! This good looking fellow was in a field next to the Merlin Hulse Barn shown below him. The information we had on this barn was that Clydesdales were housed there. If you click …
Day 2, Part 1 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
After spending a quiet night at the Frontier Inn in Clinton, Iowa, we were looking forward to starting our barn tour. We left the hotel, filled up with gas and hit the road about 6:30 (local time). The first barn we came to we couldn’t get up close to.Some of the barns that we saw …
Day 1 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
Sometime over the winter, in anticipation of our summer trip to Wyoming, Tommy found the Highway 30 Barn Tour which sounded pretty interesting. We are trying more and more to get off the interstates and see rural America. So we planned our route (yep–right straight across Iowa on Highway 30), got directions to the barns …
Goodbye Dear Brother
My, as I liked to call him, “older” brother passed away yesterday. He was injured in a swimming accident at the beach in Jacksonville, Florida. I never felt the need to have to talk to him daily or even sometimes monthly. We just connected whenever we talked or were together. Even growing up he was …