Revisiting the sheep farm

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On Pleasant Center Road, south of Waynedale in rural Allen County, there is an old farm that was abandoned for a while. When I discovered it in 2001, an old man still lived there, and was farming sheep. I returned in February, 2012 to photograph it again, because someone is repainting the barns and fixing things up. The American flag was flying from the old light pole in the yard next to the farmhouse. The little building behind the flag is a summer kitchen.

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More photos coming as soon as I edit them.
 
Looks like a splendid place to shoot these great images.. so don't keep us in suspense and post some more! I must say that the colors suprised me though and I had to adjust for a moment, as I completely associate these old rural homes and farms with B&W photography.
 
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When I photographed this little shed in front of the barn, ten years ago, the roof of the shed had cedar shingles and the siding was bare weathered wood! There were sheep in the fenced area between the shed and the large barn.
 
That is a great tree, Chris. I like the pictures a lot.

It's funny how the flag in the first picture is kind of hard to parse–as you can see from a later image the mounting pole is quite narrow, so in the small jpeg the flag seems to just float there.

Thanks for sharing!
 
Chris,

Assume for a minute that I'm an idiot, and explain the concept of a summer kitchen to me. I think I know what and why, but would be interesting to hear more. If you'll excuse me being mysterious I'll tell you why I ask later.

Thanks,

Adrian
 
Muggins said:
Chris,

Assume for a minute that I'm an idiot, and explain the concept of a summer kitchen to me. I think I know what and why, but would be interesting to hear more. If you'll excuse me being mysterious I'll tell you why I ask later.

Thanks,

Adrian
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Its a small building behind the house where cooking was done in the summer in the 19th Century. Back then, stoves and ovens were heated with fire from wood or coal, and would make the house terribly hot in the summer. So, they cooked in the summer kitchen to keep the house cool.
 
Thanks, Chris, that's about what I thought.

The reason I was curious is that cooking in England didn't really come into houses - at least not larger ones - until about the 16th century, and many houses had little detached kitchen buildings few yards away. I actually grew up in a house with a little detached outbuilding that could well have been the old kitchen, but never got the chance to explore it as a tree fell on it and demolished it when I was about seven. I was interested by the similarity of the idea of the summer kitchen to that.

Looking you up on Wikipedia, I can see the need - your average summer temperatures would be greeted with joy in the UK. We forget that a country on the latitude of Moscow won't have the climate of Madrid!

Adrian
 
Muggins said:
Thanks, Chris, that's about what I thought.

The reason I was curious is that cooking in England didn't really come into houses - at least not larger ones - until about the 16th century, and many houses had little detached kitchen buildings few yards away. I actually grew up in a house with a little detached outbuilding that could well have been the old kitchen, but never got the chance to explore it as a tree fell on it and demolished it when I was about seven. I was interested by the similarity of the idea of the summer kitchen to that.

Looking you up on Wikipedia, I can see the need - your average summer temperatures would be greeted with joy in the UK. We forget that a country on the latitude of Moscow won't have the climate of Madrid!

Adrian
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It gets hotter than Hell here in the summer, sometimes over 100, but more often in the 90s. If it is cooler in England, there are a lot of us here who would trade places! The strange thing is that when I lived in New Mexico, in the desert southwest part of the USA, it was slightly cooler in the summer and a lot colder in the winter than it was in Indiana.
 
A nice series

A nice series

Great contrast of buildings with land and trees, and excellent compositions, Chris. A most enjoyable series from rural Allen County.
 
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