Sepia Scenes: Under A Blue Sky

Amish Barn

Sugarcreek, Ohio

11-4-2009

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Sepia Scenes: An Amish Barn

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An Amish Barn

Sugarcreek, Ohio

November 2008

I think the only thing that keeps this from looking like it was taken years ago is the new steel grain silo on the left.

Amended Thoughts and Image

Reading through my comments with regard to the silo and making this look like an old photo I have taken my original sepia and added some grainy elements to it (thanks Mojo) to make it appear like an older photo.

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Sky Watch: Amish Farms and a Sunset

I've been posting different scenes this week from my visit to the Amish Countryside of Sugarcreek, Ohio. These are some of the farms I saw along the way. This was one of the newer farms in the area. I love the old wagon to the right of the silo.

Windmills dotted the countryside.

We were there at corn harvesting time.

This one is my favorite. I love the peeling red paint, the white silo, the puffy white clouds,the old wire fence and the horse crazing lazily in the pasture. It has all the right elements for a peaceful scene.

We spent the entire day in Sugarcreek. As we headed home the sun was setting beautifully over the countryside.

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Sepia Scenes:Mini Me and An Amish Corn Hopper

Last week Mary suggested we try a portrait for our sepia scene. I chose to show this original sepia photo from my childhood. Yes, this little chubby cheeked girl is me at around four years old. I have done nothing to the photo except scan it. If it weren't sepia all the actual colors would make for a very busy photo. The sofa I'm sitting on is a dark burgundy color. I have to ask my Mom when I can show her the picture again; but I believe the jumper is a turquoise color with black belt and buttons and the shirt a pale yellow. Of course my hair is strawberry blond. I'm more than happy that sepia was the color of choice at the time!

What am I doing with my hand like that you might be wondering. I was supposed to be catching a ball. Not my catching pose for sure. And, the photographer came door to door. This was taken in our living room. He came to the door, Mom changed my clothes, and the photo session began. My how things have changed!

An Amish Corn Hopper

Sugarcreek, Ohio

November 2008

I took this last week on a short visit to the Amish countryside of Sugarcreek, Ohio. The old wood and metal hopper sitting in the corn field waiting to be hooked up to a team of horses captured my attention. It certainly evokes a time gone by don't you think?

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Watery Wednesday: An Amish Farm

An Amish Farm

Sugarcreek, Ohio

November 2008

Last Saturday I posted some photos of the horses I had seen on my recent trip to Sugarcreek, Ohio. This is an area filled with Amish farms. Traveling down one of the back roads I found a farm with a pond right beside the road and knew it would be perfect for a Watery Wednesday post. The next couple of days I will post more scenes from the area and Friday I will be showing more of these beautiful farms for Sky Watch.

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Camera Critters: Amish Horses

After casting my ballot on Tuesday a day trip to Sugarcreek, Ohio had been planned. Sugarcreek is known as the gateway to Amish country. To quote the website, "As you leave the hurry of the highway behind you'll certainly sense why the Amish families that arrived in the 1800s found this place as appealing as the sun after a storm. The fertile Ohio countryside promised both the freedom to practice their faith-based way of life and the providence to farm as their forefathers had before them. Using traditional methods rooted in reverence and stewardship, many industrious Amish farmers still put shoulder to harness, sowing and harvesting crops behind teams of hard-working draft horses."
We had a wonderful day. It was warm, the sky was blue, and the people were friendly and waved wherever we went. It was a very peaceful day.
Amish Country meant we would see lots of horses. I want to share some of those scenes with you.

As you can see everyone must share the road.

A couple of boys out for an afternoon ride. The younger one seemed to be talking a mile a minute.
We saw these farmers over the way and took a sideroad to get closer. I still had to look twice. They were not picking up bales of hay; but bales of corn stalks.

If you clip-clopped on highways or trod the fields on a daily basis you too would need new shoes. This horse was waiting his turn at the local farrier. He stood there very calm as traffic passed.

I was more than surprised as we traveled down a backroad seeing farm after farm when I looked across one hillside to see....camels. I kid you not. There were three. Way too far away for my camera to catch but I was thinking to myself what a great Camera Critters post that would have been!

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