Buying locally
Inside an old barn in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
The Blackstone Valley has always been a farming community. Although it was the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, the farms have always been here too. People, after all, need to eat and where the ground is fertile and apple orchards thrive, families will farm.
Summer has come, right on time. It usually shows up just around Memorial Day and that will be here this weekend. The cows are serene. The chickens and horses are content and peaceful. The corn is coming up green and it looks like a good crop is on the way. Soon we’ll have fresh local produce and our air will be full of the scent of things growing from the earth.
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Categories: #Photography, Architecture, Blackstone Valley
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Reblogged this on catnipoflife and commented:
What better catnip could there possibly be than the beauty and joy of the countryside! This is THE place to observe life at its best, listen to life’s songs, embrace life’s bounties, breathe the breath of life and savor life to its fullest!
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Absolutely LOVE these pictures! Reminds me so much of my grandparents back in the 50s-60s. 🙂
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It’s still 1955 here.
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That’s alarming. Try it again and see what happens. I’ve had some weird stuff involving photographs recently. I thought I fixed it. Probably you can scoop it if the reblog doesn’t work. There are some issues with that gallery function. I’m not sure what it is, but it has been giving me a lot of problems. I guess I didn’t solve them!
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The link to my blog is intact, but it won’t open up the post on your site. I have seen this before. I believe it is a WordPress glitch, because it isn’t just me and you, but many other people also.
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PHOOEY! I will Scoop.it and see what happens.
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There reblog isn’t coming through properly. Also if you click on “reblogged” on your notice it will take you here, nothing will take you to your site. I’ve seen this on other blogs too. WordPress issue. Should be no problem. When the reblog function doesn’t work, I scoop!!
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Yea! Got it scooped!:-)
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ScoopIt almost always works. And I often prefer it because you can edit it a bit so it looks nicer.
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It was interesting spending a couple of days on Long Island, New York (part of yesteryear) which is mostly flat and returning home to Uxbridge, Ma. and “the country”. Ah, the flowers , birds, fields of veggies and trees!! Ah, the pollen!!!!!
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Ah, the bugs! But it is beautiful and I wouldn’t swap!
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:37 PM, SERENDIPITY
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Always reminds me of my childhood where I lived in the country a lot.
We actually lived on a huge tomato farm in Illinois for a while. Just renting this old farm house.
Went to a country school that was held in a old small church. Each row was a different grade.
As a special treat (if we were good) the teacher would play “Mexican Hat Dance” by Gene Autrey
on this old gramophone player she had.
When I tell this to kids these days … they don’t believe me.
Maybe I really was in the Twilight Zone.
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This is a far different world from the one in which we grew up. I was a city kid, but even the city isn’t anything like the city is now. And where we live really IS the country. Being in the Valley is like time travel. It’s always the mid-1950s around here.
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