A typical fall sunset on a Midwest farm; I was not sure if I was in Indiana or Illinois when I took this. It was the time of day right before dark...I really liked the way this one turned out though to me the way the sky is makes it look slightly out of focus.

For those of you who might like old, old pictures of the United States, try THIS link...it is a link from within the American Memory Homepage, which is from the Library of Congress. I can spend hours and hours there sometimes...sometimes I just like looking at the old photographs. There are a lot of repeats, but it is still worth going through them. And there are links to letters, journals, and all kinds of things from the American Memory page/Immigration Expansion sections.

I cannot imagine living in the close quarters that our ancestors lived in. Imagine living in the sod houses...I bet they were cooler than the average house today without air conditioning. But I just cannot imagine anything positive otherwise. And don't you know the tractor had to be one of the greatest inventions of all time for farmers?

Oh, for all you quilters, look HERE to see the quilt on Teddy Roosevelt's bed in his cabin in North Dakota. You can click the picture to make it larger....and there are is even a section on Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996.

That is all for now....I hope you enjoy at least one of these links.

Another barn: two views. I also removed the color from the second view. I love black and white pictures. The last year or two I shot film, I almost always had B & W in one camera and slide film in the other. I took this a week or two ago...another barn from Parke County, Indiana.