Pro1 - Lancaster

A beautiful sunny day in the high 80's yesterday when I went to Lancaster.

Here are a few pictures.

Stopped by a family owned market store and greenhouse

Of course hubby spotted his JD tractor with steel wheels and asked to take a picture which the farmer agreed.
1/500s f/4.0 at 14.8mm RAW



A farmer raking his hay
1/640s f/4.0 at 32.1mm
(contrasty since I was shooting into the sun)



Baling (too green) hay
1/800s f/4.0 at 16.8mm



Driving by and turning back, here is something you don't see everyday
Barn building with about 50+ workers with their 'hammers'



and shopping for produce is a bargain besides eating out in Lancaster.
SD880 1/60s f/2.8 at 5.0mm iso160



For more pictures --->
http://www.pbase.com/sueymarky/lancaster_2009

Thanks for looking and c/c welcomed.

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sue anne

... especially considering what looks like tough conditions on a very sunny day...

All the best

jim

Sueanne, great pictures. I was in Lancaster last fall - beautiful country. I loved your picture of the barn raising. That was a rare opportunity to come by.

Shirley

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Thank you Jim,

It was a beautiful day so I can't complain.

It is harsher to shoot with the high sun but that makes it a challenge and I do like challenges. I think if I brought my CP, I might have gotten by easier but that's a bugger to set up the EC too.

In any case, I enjoyed the scenic routes and eating as I think that is the best part of the days.

BTW - hope you're up to speedy recovery and you feel like new in no time.

jpmalohesr said:

... especially considering what looks like tough conditions on a very sunny day...

All the best

jim

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Thanks Shirley,

That is a beautiful time to be in Lancaster to enjoy the Fall changing of leaves and the harvesting time.

Yes in all the times we've been in Lancaster, we never saw that in person. It was a sight to see and hear the clunking of the hammers.

Thanks for your commenting and Lancaster is a fun place.

ShirleyGS said:

Sueanne, great pictures. I was in Lancaster last fall - beautiful country. I loved your picture of the barn raising. That was a rare opportunity to come by.

Shirley

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Very nice pics , Thats one place we want to go when we come to visit you and Billie

steel wheels on a modern tractor,,is some thing you would never see in this area would compact the groung too hard,,,in fact many of the farmers have put rubber tracks on thier tractors,

The barn raiseing would be some thing to see,,too bad more people don,t work together like that..
nice place to get veggies to.
Thanks for shareing,,,ron

Hi Sue Anne,

One of the nice things about these forums is being able to share images with folks from all over the world who wouldn't normally see these scenes. Love the barn raising shots and the hay raking (also the steel wheels!). Much of that way of life (that used to be not so far out of the norm years ago) has been lost to the rest of "mainstream" society.
Thanks for the pics!
Best regards,
Mark
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Thanks Ron,

Ronnie H said:

Very nice pics , Thats one place we want to go when we come to visit you and Billie

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Lancaster is as good Country as you'll see but still many housing developments have popped up since last year.

Ronnie H said:

steel wheels on a modern tractor,,is some thing you would never see in this area would compact the groung too hard,,,in fact many of the farmers have put rubber tracks on thier tractors,

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Steel wheels for the Amish or New order Mennonites.

Ronnie H said:

The barn raiseing would be some thing to see,,too bad more people don,t work together like that..

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It was a sight to see and listen to. But its how they get things done, more is better than less.

Ronnie H said:

nice place to get veggies to.

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I actually shopped at a few, the small store and then the big store that I just have a blast finding vegetables, shoo fly pie and funny cakes.

Ronnie H said:

Thanks for shareing,,,ron

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Thanks for looking and commenting.

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Hi Mark,

Yes it is nice seeing pictures all over.

The barn raising is something we don't see everyday. It just was there as we drove along and so there I am photographing it. It's way cool seeing it then just the picture shows.

Yes the raking the hay and all those farm scenes are just ordinary to them but I always glad when I see them in the field. Their crops, corn and soybeans and tobacco are just doing so well. They say the dirt in Lancaster is just gold.

Thanks for looking and Lancaster is a fun place to do stuff.

BravoBrown said:

Hi Sue Anne,

One of the nice things about these forums is being able to share images with folks from all over the world who wouldn't normally see these scenes. Love the barn raising shots and the hay raking (also the steel wheels!). Much of that way of life (that used to be not so far out of the norm years ago) has been lost to the rest of "mainstream" society.
Thanks for the pics!
Best regards,
Mark
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jim

Hi Sue Anne,

Great set of pics, thanks for sharing 'em!

I really liked the barn raising pic & can see in the BG that they 'cheated' by using a Lull (reach forklift).

Steel wheels on a new tractor, must be an Amish thing huh? Are certain sects less strict as to motorized vehicles as long as they have steel wheels?

Interesting pics in your gallery also, the food looks delicious!

This barn landscape is nicely composed with the rolling landscape accentuated by the cut of the fields...



Have a great weekend!
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Hello SueAnne

Excellent series.
I like the barn building photo.

Here in Florida there are no Amish, but just a bunch of homeless people and a lot of empty foreclosed houses.

Sure there is a lot to learn about Amish community when they don't have mortgage crises, etc

Hi John,

Kota2k2 said:

Hi Sue Anne,

Great set of pics, thanks for sharing 'em!

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Thanks, glad you liked them.

I was thinking I wasn't going to see any farm activity out since all the crops are growing but I think they wanted to get the hay in before the rain.

Kota2k2 said:

I really liked the barn raising pic & can see in the BG that they 'cheated' by using a Lull (reach forklift).

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LOL yes I guess they need a little help of a Lull to get to the high places.
(perhaps the Lull had steel wheels.... )

Kota2k2 said:

Steel wheels on a new tractor, must be an Amish thing huh? Are certain sects less strict as to motorized vehicles as long as they have steel wheels?

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I think all Amish must have steel wheels and the old order Mennonites can have farm equipment with steel wheels. The farmer we took a pic of the tractor was an old order Mennonite with steel wheel and rubber under that. He changed churches that he could have rubber wheels but chose to keep what he had. He was not Amish as he had electric to the greenhouses.

(Amish can't have electric but may have telephones which they have booths outside with their phones in there)

Kota2k2 said:

Interesting pics in your gallery also, the food looks delicious!

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Yup, I was a piggy trying out all the food....

Kota2k2 said:

This barn landscape is nicely composed with the rolling landscape accentuated by the cut of the fields...

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Thanks and that farm belong to the baling hay wagon.

Kota2k2 said:

Have a great weekend!

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You too !

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Hello Alex,

Photato said:

Hello SueAnne

Excellent series.
I like the barn building photo.

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Thanks !

Photato said:

Here in Florida there are no Amish, but just a bunch of homeless people and a lot of empty foreclosed houses.

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I think we have alot of homeless people and empty foreclosed houses here too.
It's everywhere sadly.

Photato said:

Sure there is a lot to learn about Amish community when they don't have mortgage crises, etc

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I think you are right about the Amish community but I think it takes a very hard worker, dedication, religion and want to live the plain simple life. It's not that easy.

Thanks for looking and have a great evening !

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(Amish can't have electric but may have telephones which they have booths outside with their phones in there)

I've seen some creative (but ultimately sensible) interpretations of this rule. Specifically, an Amish dairyman who didn't have electricity in the house, but did have it in the dairy barn--supplied by a tractor-driven generator. But the tractor was on steel wheels and had been converted to natural gas. The natural-gas well on the farmer's property also supplied the heat for the house, of course.
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Glendower