Widow Maker Photos/Storms Headed This Way

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.

When Grandpa died in early January 1990, I bought some of the farm. The barnyard looked similar to your pictures. Took 2 years to get it all cleaned up.

Sad to see a whole lifetime fade away like that ... yet - I'd MUCH rather see mother nature reclaim it than have it all covered up by a housing development with cute farmy sounding street names as if they have any kind of meaninfugl connection with the past they've destroyed!

Can you tell I'm bitter.

Far too much of that going on around here.

Storms heading this way too - but looks like the good stuff's going to end up just south of us.

I hate that too, street names like media brook estates, or country walk lane, real stupid names that don't reflect the living. Pheasant Way, ect.

If you take down that tree, the squirrels or whatever has been living in it ain't gonna like you! Like someone said, better for nature to reclaim something than developers. I have been sitting here for five minutes thinking of the country roads that I used to drive that have been swallowed up by urban sprawl.

One of the street names not too far from here is something like Bailer Lane. It must be named for a factory which put on bucket handles.

I am with you, JR. Even though the house we bought in 04 was about 8 yrs old then, I was told that in the 40s there was a house on this corner, a farm... I suppose I would like to take it back to that state, just in the 21 century...