Monday, November 24, 2014

The Village

The pictures I have for you today were taken last summer. Right now it looks very different around here. There are no leaves left on the trees and everything is covered in snow. Also the temperature is much too cold for me to do much of anything other than wait till it warms up just a little bit to go out.

My first trip when I do go out will be right back to this very place, but maybe not to this village in the woods. The nature park where this village exists is a big one with many different features to explore, and there are many that I haven't seen yet. But today I want to talk about the village.

This village is one of the features of  Adams Homestead And Nature Preserve. I can't say I know much about it yet because I've only visited it once so far. I do know that this house above was built in the 1880s. That's pretty old for this part of the country. It's called the Shay-Adams House.

There are several buildings in this little village with signs like the ones above out in front of each one. They give a nice little description of each building and maybe go into the history of each one. In a future post I'll maybe give you a better look at what some of them say. I'll be back here many more times.

The cabin above was built in the 1860s and is called The Brusseau House. The door was open, so I went inside and took a few pictures. I'll feature them in a future post, I'm not sure when yet. I'm not sure if the door was meant to be open or if I was supposed to go in, but I did. I'm an outlaw. Fear me.

This red building is a school house. I never went closer to it than this. I don't know why. Onew of these4 next visits I'll have to go up close and examine it better. By the time I got this far I was eager to explore other parts of the nature park, and I was hunting a geocache, which I found.

The only thing we had like this back in Michigan near me was a big place called Greenfield Village which cost quite a bit of money to get in. It was worth it, but this little place gives you a similar but very much smaller experience, without all the flash, for free.

I hope I can keep these more frequent posts up, but the very much colder weather is going to make it difficult. It's been cold and windy around here. The cold is fine, but that wind just about kills me. I'll be making a point of going out on warmer days, and there are a few inside places I'll be visiting as well. I'll talk to you later.

14 comments:

  1. This was a very nice tour. I do hope you will visit it again.

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    1. I will definitely visit this place again, hopefully with some good closeups of the houses.

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  2. Fun to explore I will have to get up there. As you can see I do find critters, the trick is early morning except for squirrels, not before 10. I read Field and stream at the library and take their hunter tips to expand my photo hunter tips. We should do a photo shoot sometime. I am busy feeding many for their holiday. Bought 3 cases of Spam for the local pantry and told the grocer I was forming my turkey with it. LOL

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    1. I'm sure you'd like this place. The hiking trails are surprisingly long for a park that seems so small at first. I'm still trying to get into shape to walk the whole distance. I've been riding in my truck too much these last few years.

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  3. You go hunting in a village this time.

    Quite a find.

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    1. I went hunting in a village and I caught houses. I never did that before.

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  4. What a neat place! Sounds like you'll be having a lot of fun exploring and discovering the features of that place. Happy Thanksgiving, Ratty.

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    1. I hope to get some more closeup looks at these houses next time I visit this part of the park.

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  5. What a cool little historical village! My human is a fan of places like this one.

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    1. I'm a fan of these places too. It's not often I find one of these places that I don't have to pay to get in.

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  6. That looks like a nice size village to explore

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    1. The village itself is actually not that big, but it's spread out in a nice way. I wish I could explore the inside of some of these places.

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  7. How lovely and refreshing to see these summer photos. I love all the greenery and found the different houses and buildings very interesting. Here's to an early spring!

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    1. I can't wait for spring, my favorite time of year. I hope I can make more of it than I did last spring.

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