Click here to see a neat old picture of a homestead for sale on Ebay. (The pictures for sale, not the homestead!)

I have nothing to do with this sale, just thought it was a neat picture of an old homestead.

Can anybody tell what's growing in their "yard"??

-- heather (h.m.metheny@att.net), March 22, 2002

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stumped on that one. I even copied the pic and enhanced it best I could with Adobe PD and still can't figure it out. Closest crop I could say is tomatoes but they're growing awfully thick to be that. It's not tobacco. Maybe just the natural local groundcover, crownvetch or something similar?

-- Dave (multiplierx9@hotmail.com), March 22, 2002.

It looks like bracken fern to me.

-- Laura (LadybugWrangler@somewhere.com), March 23, 2002.

Great picture! When I first looked at it, I thought that her rain gutter had fallen down. Then I realized - DUH! - it was that way for running the rain water into a barrel. Can you tell I was raised in the city or what?!? LOL!

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), March 23, 2002.

I don't have any idey what that growth is unless it would be somekind of ground growin berrys--like dew berrys?

Several years ago I attempted to make a few clocks and sell'm in addition to those console radios. I ran across some beautiful pictures of an Amish farmstead with the clock numbers in a lower corner. I bought all of'm---about 200 to 400? maybe--all of'm identical. It wasn't like this picture as it was much newer and more "kept".

This picture is a beautiful old dude and I'm gonna see if'n Lil Dumplin can clean it up a mite and print it out for me. Her printer is much better than mine! She also knows bunches more than I about this picture makin thing than old hillbillys. I didn't tell ya'll--- Lil Dumplin is "into" picture takin--she love me tho. Recently she just had to have a new Kodak Digital with pixels [whatever that is] and gave me her old Kodak digital. Ya'll orta see all the things I take pictures of---she downloads'm and "burns'n" on cd's for me ---on her puter. Old hoot. Matt.24:44

-- old hoot gibson (hoot@pcinetwork.com), March 23, 2002.

I think Laura may be right. Where would that location be that it grows that thick though?

-- Dave (multiplierx9@hotmail.com), March 23, 2002.

I think fern is right, the more I look at it -

Don't you just wish you could walk into their cabin & see what's inside!!!

Also, what do you think the man is sitting on??

Anyone have any other "old homestead" pictures they can point us to??

I like to see how different people were set up! ;) THANKS

-- heather (h.m.metheny@att.net), March 23, 2002.

not really many pictures, but interesting nonetheless; these links have probably been posted here before but anyway;

http://waltonfeed.com/old/index.html

http://198.209.8.166/sheproom/periodicals/bittersweet/bswtoc.htm

-- Dave (multiplierx9@hotmail.com), March 23, 2002.

Most meadows in western Washington have ferns growing that thick. This little cabin looks like one of the thousands built by Finnish imigrants that settled the coastal areas of the state.

The poplar trees tell me there is a river behind there and between the trees and the ferns and the style of the house, I would say the location is southwest Washington, south of the Chehalis River. The more I look at the picture, the more I am convinced it is Pacific county along the Naselle River or perhaps Greys River.

Oh, and the dog's name is Jigger Joe.

-- Laura (LadybugWrangler@somewhere.com), March 23, 2002.

Alfalfa maybe?

-- Lynelle SOwestVA (X2ldp@aol.com), March 23, 2002.

Than you for sharing tha picture with us! I just loved seeing it. The original room of this old farmhouse might have looked like that! I think that it was added on to as they needed the room. I'd love to see the inside of it too! Imagine living back there like that!

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), March 24, 2002.