Natalya~A Simple Time

Do you ever wish you could travel back in time? Before computers? Movies? Cell phones? Mp3 players? Before everyone was worried about everything going haywire with the government and the country as a whole? Some states have always been in the middle of politics, but some, like mine, is filled with "little towns" and "little people". Some of that has remained, but even in the early 1900's, some places up here were still very much like they'd always been. Back in the not-so-long-ago days of Caddie Woodlawn and Laura Ingalls-Wilder. Much of the land has stayed the same since then, at least where I live. Yes, we have running water now, and internet, and paved roads (well...in some places, I live on a gravel road!), but the simplistic beauty of the farmland remains. Here are some photographs I've taken over the years of the simple life and land here. :)

This is right outside our house. It's down in our woodland trail. :) :) I love this corn field. :) We sled down it in the winter. It's not ours, it's our neighbors, but he lets us use it. :)
This is the farm house of the people letting us use their field. :) They're a really sweet older couple. :) :) They even named their prettiest cow after me a few years ago. She's red with a white heart on her forehead. I'll have to get a picture of her sometime and post it! :) I got to name her calf too. I named her Regina, which means "Queen".
I get to see this every day (well...in Summer and Fall) when we drive home. Isn't it lovely?
This is the view across the lake from the boat landing at the park. It's actually much bigger then this, but it swoops around in the other direction. That's the town we're closest to you can see across it. Lot's of old buildings. I don't know if you can see it really well, but the second tallest chimny-like thing is connected to a building that was built in the late 1800's!
This one I took while actually on the lake. :) It was late fall, so all the colors were coming. So beautiful!
And you know what? Even in winter, it's still beautiful. This was taken our first snow if this year (first snows are always the most beautiful!) I took this from our deck. I think it looks kinda like Narnia, but maybe that's just me. :)

Psa 25:6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

They have been of old and they will continue to be. Forever and ever, AMEN! :)

~Natalya

P.S. I will be gone for the next three weeks, but I will pre-post everything so I will be ON TIME! (finally huh?) Sorry I keep posting late! :(

P.P.S. Click on any of the pictures to make it bigger!