Childhood Memories

On Thursday Janet and I visited the area where she was born and the Herd farm where she  spent her childhood years.  The area is located on Bar Creek in Clay County and is really beautiful.  Janet really enjoyed the visit and I was happy to be with her.  The following pictures do not really do not capture the quiet beauty of this lovely area.
  

 The barn and well box are the only structures left from the farm.

 Quiet beauty

 This field was adjacent to a log house located to the right where Janet and her family lived. Janet remembers watching her dad plow the field with his team of mules.

This barn was located on the Herd farm and Janet remembers her father working on the roof with a rope tied to him for safety.

 The tree in the foreground is a pear tree that stood in the yard. The tree still bears fruit and we were able to pick up several large pears that had fallen from it.

 This is the farm where her Grandfather and Grandmother lived.  The small building behind Janet is where her Grandfather had a small country store.  The barn was quite ornate.

 Janet is sitting on what is left of the chimney which was located in the center of the house

Road leading up Bar Creek

Red Bird River and swinging bridge at the mouth of Bar Creek.