Farm – Page 3 – Not Your Average Engineer

November 23, 2012November 15, 2021

A Walk Around the Farm and Forest

Looking out into the pastures below my parents’ barns.

Llamas coming for a closer look.

The railroad trestle.

The creek was flowing right along.

A big maple tree.

The trestle through the trees.

Looking up through the woods.

An old bottle in a small creek tributary.

A small waterfall.

Tree ferns on an old rotting log.

Poofy trying to have me pet her while I was trying to take a photo of her.

In the back acreage.

Looking out into the Willamette Valley above Rex Hill Vineyard.

Looking down toward Chehalem Valley.

Snow on the Farm

When I visited the farm the other day, I found snow on the ground and more falling from the sky.

Big fluffy flakes!

The flowers emerged a little too early.

It wasn’t much snow but it did make everything very pretty.

September 3, 2011January 27, 2013

Sandfell

I visited the abandoned farm of Sandfell. The outlines of some buildings, a tree, and the old cemetery are left. It was only abandoned in 1945 after more than 700 years of occupation.

Looking up at the homestead and cemetery.

A memorial plaque.

The lone tree in the area.

Much of the farmland has been over-topped with glacial out-wash over the centuries.

Some small bushes and the starts of trees around the old church and cemetery area.

It is fenced off from animals.

Old grave markers. The last burial was sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.

Graves.

A more modern grave.