So sorry about your father-in-law, but it sounds like he had a long,
wonderful life. He certainly left a treasure trove of photographic
possibilities for you! We hope to have the same kind of life out here on
our farm.
Tina
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> My Father-in-law passed away this week and the funeral was Saturday
> morning. After the activities, the family all returned to the farm to visit
> for a while. Many of us went out and toured the barns. He retired from
> intense farming about 25 years ago, and gave it up entirely about ten years
> ago after spending a number of years with under a hundred head.
>
> He died at the age of 88 and was a pioneer in several areas of agriculture.
> He was one of the first to adopt round bales and throughout his career
> maintained a near organic farming method, not necessarily because of
> high-mindedness, but because it made good economic sense for him. During
> the later years of raising cattle, they had actually gone vegitarian in
> their own diet. Yes, a vegitarian cattle farmer.
>
> The barns and such have fallen into disrepair over the past couple of
> decades, and have proven to be wonderful fodder for my cameras. For this
> collection of photographs I used the DMC-L1 set to in-camera jpeg. Other
> than an automated auto levels and resizing, these are as-is, straight out
> of camera. Warts and all. I will heavily process a few of them in the
> future, but not right now.
>
> Please enjoy.
>
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