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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Amish Farm Fall Tour



Who doesn't enjoy Fall? 
Let's take a tour through Amish farm country as the season and leaves turn.

Horses under brightly colored trees.

 Sunlight breaking through the leaves in heavenly rays.

You can almost smell the apples!






Above: a horse rests while at a hitching rack. 

Above: A young Amish woman heads into Kalona, Iowa. She gave me a friendly wave just before I snapped this pic. It's common for Amish in Iowa to wave to all who are friendly enough to greet them.
Above: Crisp fall air, drying clothes on a line. Amish families often use a pulley system to hang clothes on a line. If you look closely, you can see the pulley on a pole near the windmill. This way the person hanging out the wash can stand in one spot and move the line forward as they hang the laundry.
Above: an Amish woman rides her bike along a crackling crisp field of corn.
The leaves began to fall away as we get closer to Thanksgiving.
Horses stand in what little shade is left. A few weeks from now they'll be standing under the sunshine trying to soak it in.
Children from a plain Mennonite group play on a playground. Light jackets are all they need.




Interested in reading about Thanksgiving on an Amish farm. My story, The Thanksgiving Frolic is the third novella in "Love's Thankful Heart"

Click on this link:
LOVE'S THANKFUL HEART

2 comments:

  1. Fabulous photos and narrative Tom!
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

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    1. Thanks Kay! That means a lot coming from a true photographer!!

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