January 10, 2009
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…I’ve been tagged.
Usually, I ignore these sort of things, but today it gave me a topic for a post. After an entire week of cleaning the house, closets and cupboards especially, my brain seems a bit numb. Nothing exciting to report, only how many boxes of trash and giveaway I’ve managed to stack up on the garage and how many times I’ve emptied the canister on my WONDERFUL Dyson sweeper (purchased last year upon recommendation of a wise xangan.) Winter has me in its grasp!
But this tag was to choose the place on my desktop where I store photos, then choose the fourth folder, then choose the fourth photo.
So, here you see a place on our farm that I just love! It is on what we call the Van Voris Place, so named for the man who owned the property before us. When my husband was in high school, his family purchased this land when it was completed wooded. No one else would have seen the potential, but Stan and his dad cleared and sowed it into pasture, and it is one of the prettiest places around. See the way that hill slopes up, just to the right of center…there’s a tiny notch in the trees at the top? It doesn’t look like it from this angle, but it is VERY steep driving up to that spot! In fact, it takes all a four-wheel-drive can do to get up there. And once you are on top, you are rewarded with a hundred-mile view that is amazing!
I took this photo back in the early fall, when we were there one day gathering up cattle for Stan and the guys to work. You can see the tinge of early color in the hardwoods.
An interesting place lies just to the right and back through those trees of that “V.” Owned by a man who is a retired history teacher, it is the location of some sort of strange, as-yet-unexplained “calendar,” constructed of stones arranged in a huge circle. Archaelogists from the University of Missouri have studied it and believe that is what it is, but there is no way to know for sure.
One thing that IS sure is that native Americans were all over this place, camping near the springs. My brother found some perfect arrowheads there one day, and I’ve found broken pieces near one spring.
Today, the VV place is the happy home of one of our herds of black Angus cows, where they contentedly graze and raise their babies in solitude, far from the noise and stress of modern society. Going up there is like a retreat, a place to enjoy the beauty and tranquility of the rugged Ozarks.
If you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged and share your fourth photo in your fourth folder with the rest of us!
Happy Saturday!
Comments (4)
When you get finished with all your clearing out and organizing you will consider coming up this way and helping me to at least get started? lol SIGH I have to do that as soon as it warms up in my garage.
Oooooh, you have a Stonehenge near you! How exciting! I didn’t realize these stones existed outside Great Britain. -April
I have browsed your site to catch up on your news and have enjoyed it all very much! I appreciate your comments on my site and certainly have enjoyed your blog. Those little ones are so cute, so very nice. I love the stocking caps you knit. Where did you get your patterns? For adults I begin with 84 stitches for the ribbing, what do you use for children’s sizes? I have made so many knitted scarves I need to do caps again but can not guess at the size to begin one. I used to make them for my children years ago. I’ll pass on being tagged for now but did enjoy your picture and the commentary with it. Your vacation pictures were very nice and your narrative quite clever.(or would that be commentary when it is is in writing?)
Finally got time to catch up on your posts! They’re always a wonderful tour of my Ozark neighborhood (and Arkansas, too!). The usual great photography and super-informative narrative! I promise not to be a stranger….maybe I’ll even write something this week!!?? You have to admit, I’m the world’s greatest procrastinator!