Mountain Streams and Old Homesteads

[George D. Stout]

Took a walk this afternoon near my favorite mountain and took some photos.   The area has a few old homesteads....if they could just talk.  The one in photos has part of the outhouse still stanting 8^).

[Killdeer]

The little rub tells me that the place is not abandoned. Nice walk, George. I went and saw the local deer a few minutes ago, the buck has lost one spike. It has been a leisurely spring, everything taking its time. I love when that happens!

Killdeer    
(God love an outhouse!  :D  )

[Chuck_Delsandro]

Thanks for sharing George. I know you love where you live but I sure don't miss the weather in Johnstown since I moved to Washington Co. It always seems to be about 10 degrees warmer here than it is in Johnstown  

[Chuck_Delsandro]

BTW that outhouse looks like a good blind!

[George D. Stout]

Hey Chuck, we're on the east side of Laurel Ridge so we have weather more like you have.

[DeerSpotter]

When I was growing up as a kid I lived on a farm in southwestern Michigan, we had what we called
"40 acre river bottom", that was some of the best land, I remember set in watching Beaver cut trees downed, building up their dams, and their lodges.  I never did hunt deer there, I used to set and watch them, along with the turkey.  It was a great place to be for a 12-year-old.

When I hunt some areas in Minnesota here, some areas remind me of that river bottom.  I have a painting that has a birch line, that looks like where the Beaver use to cut down birch in my river bottom.

Took my wife back there to show her the farm, but 40 years of life, kinda had everything overgrown, and the sad thing was, no one was taking care of the river bottom, they just let it go.  Could a purchased the river bottom and the house for about 200,000, sometimes, memories are best left, as memories.

Thanks for sharing George

On the river bottom, we had a boundary of a river on one side, and a creek on the other, similar to the one in your photos.

[Harmless]

George, I love the photo's. I'v come across some old homesteads befor and sat a thought about them. I'v woundered who lived there, what period of time was it, what did their family's look like, how did they live etc.... yep, if wall's could only talk ! While hunting on state land here in Michigan I found two grave stones out in the middle of no where. A woman and her two infant children, died in 1849. The area had a ring of giant white pines planted around it. Makes ya wonder !

[bentpole]

George, my kinda' place thanks for sharing your little piece of heaven!I like the little rub in that last picture as well. How far are you from Sopranoland [JERSEY] George?