Well it’s been a minute since I last posted, leaving you wondering what I saw on my drive home from Alabama a month ago. That’s because I took a few days this week to camp in northern Michigan, so I’ve been away again.

Of course that means I have MORE photos to sort through. But let me finish up my trip south first.

There’s this farm that I’ve noticed on several previous trips down and back, a stately home and a couple barns, very near the freeway. But I usually see it out of the corner of my eye just after the freeway exit and I’ve never tried to find it before.

Until this last trip north.
It’s a stunning home, and I took several images from a couple different locations on the road. If I had to guess I’d say it was built in the late 1800’s? Or early 1900’s. What do you think?

Then, trying to find my way back to the freeway I did a big country block and came across a home that looks to be from the same era. I actually had to drive further, find somewhere to turn around and go back for it.

I couldn’t leave without it!

Back on the road it wasn’t long before I saw the perfect barn and once again had to get off the freeway and find a service drive that led me back to it.

It was the only real ‘barn’ image I took on the trip north. I figured it was time to get home and one barn was enough. I should really stop dilly-dallying. After all how many barn pictures does one photographer need?

But, then again, is any number ever truly enough?
June 28, 2025 at 9:21 am
I hope you had a good time camping and didn’t get too hot! Also hope you got some good photos, including Milky Way photos.
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June 28, 2025 at 11:02 am
I have mixed reviews about this latest camping trip. I haven’t downloaded the photos. Maybe I’ll be able to up the rating after I look at them. Meanwhile I’m just grateful to be in air conditioning and not being swarmed by bugs.
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June 28, 2025 at 11:47 am
Hot and covered in biting bugs does not sound overly fun… Hope you got some great photos for it 🙂
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June 28, 2025 at 9:27 am
I would pull over for these photos anytime. That first home is one beautiful piece of property.
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June 28, 2025 at 11:02 am
Isn’t it?! Every time I saw it on previous trips I was struck by it’s beauty. This time I decided to find it off the freeway and get a picture.
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June 28, 2025 at 11:05 am
You asked: Which way should I go? Smiling about wanting to know what is around the next curve. I’m right there with you. Maybe it doesn’t matter as long as you keep going!
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June 28, 2025 at 11:19 am
I think you are right. I have always, no matter which way I went, found something picture worthy.
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June 28, 2025 at 12:47 pm
Dawn, am I right that the second house has an upstairs balcony, but no rail? Maybe I just can’t see it. Anyway, it caught my eye. Love the barn pic, and the fields – lines are kinda my thing too.
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June 28, 2025 at 2:05 pm
I had to make the image bigger to see, there’s what’s probably an iron railing up there. Don’t think it’s wood or plastic, it’s black and barely visible unless you zoom in.
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June 28, 2025 at 2:04 pm
Of some things, there is no such thing as ‘enough’. I love those houses, and in my next life, while I am still young, maybe I’ll have one.
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June 28, 2025 at 2:06 pm
I know the feeling. I’d love to live in an old house….and a condo in a city…and in a loft somewhere in NY or Chicago…and in a cabin on 100 acres…and…and…and…even though I know that where I DO live is pretty darn nice…I’d like to experience all the other options. But I am realizing I won’t have that opportunity. Maybe I should start staying at AirNB places…just to experience them.
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June 28, 2025 at 2:07 pm
Oh and I would like to live in a small walled village in rural Italy or France. Please.
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June 28, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Oh yes! Please. Or the United Kingdom. I have lived in a lot of different kinds of houses and places because we moved around a lot when I was a kid, but I’ve always loved the Colonial and Victorian houses. I really needed to have a wealthy family so I could fulfill all my wishes.
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June 28, 2025 at 3:25 pm
those homes are beautiful! Definitely gave me 1800 vibes (the first one gave me horror movie vibes lol). I love the lines on those soy beans too!
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June 28, 2025 at 9:19 pm
I’d like to see the inside of these houses! The barn, well you can almost see the inside from the car!
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June 30, 2025 at 4:44 pm
I would love to see the inside of the houses too!
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June 28, 2025 at 8:34 pm
When it comes to barns, there are never enough pictures.
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June 28, 2025 at 9:19 pm
You have a point.
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June 28, 2025 at 9:05 pm
I love the farmhouses, I think the style is called ‘Italianate’ I see these out west of me. Stately and proper, but I am sure they made a good home. We buy our pumpkins from a place out west of me in Earlville. Solid family, the annual pumpkin harvest is the college fund for the grandkids, and great grandkids, now. Grandpa has since passed on, but he has passes down his work ethic – you work and you get a slice…
The past week or so has been hot and humid. We got a little break this morning but today I came home from volunteering – I was outside from 10 to 2:30 and it was HOT and still with very little wind. I was wiped, I hope it wasn’t so hot on your camping trip. That could make it an unpleasant time out of doors.
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June 28, 2025 at 9:21 pm
West of you as in western Michigan? Cool! I’ll have to explore over that way! Yes, my camping trip this week started out HOT! Monday night it was 98 degrees inside the tent. But then it rained overnight that night (and every night) and the rest of the time there wa sin the 70s and kind of lovely when it wasn’t raining. The mosquitos though were AWFUL the entire time!
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June 28, 2025 at 9:37 pm
I live in northern Illinois, we have a lake house in Grayling, Michigan. The farms out west of me are on the flat prairie of northwestern Illinois. They are some pretty cool barns out there, too.
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June 28, 2025 at 10:06 pm
I bet there are!
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June 28, 2025 at 10:54 pm
Funny – yes, you could not pass up the opportunity to stop and photograph these two barns. The one dilapidated barn does need some TLC and too bad all that hay is still there wasting away. 🙂 That is a beautiful spread there – stately home, immaculate-looking barn and the second “city house” reminds me a Southern home with those big pillars out front. The fields do seem to have precise rows don’t they?
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June 28, 2025 at 11:35 pm
A photographer can never truly have enough good farm photos. Absolutely not! 😀
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