Wilson Feed Mill

This busy feed mill is located on Canal Rd. just outside the CVNP. I climbed down an embankment to a small stream leading to the mill. As soon as my boots hit the water, a large frog screamed an alarm and dove in, startling me at first, and then I had a pretty good laugh. I hadn't locked eyes with a frog since I was about twelve.

The stream led right up to the mill, and I could see the old mill race and part of a turbine lying on the ground. This historical building really WAS an old mill ( some use the name, but aren't really a true one like this old structure. I will go back and paint this when the leaves have fallen.

Ode to my dumpster

Sunday morning in Holmes County

The fog was burning off as I saw this farm emerging from the mist. As I began to paint, more of it disappeared to reveal it all. This county is one of the most beautiful in the state of Ohio.

1929 Chevy

This 1929 Chevy belongs to a friend, whose father owned it for many years. I got to ride in it before he parked it on his lawn where I painted it.

SOLD

Iron Monster

These fire-breathing dragons once graced the tracks that bordered our property , and I was scared to death of them, seeming them daily for the first ten years of my life. They hauled iron ore south to Youngstown to feed the smelters there, and when the heavily loaded trains labored up the grade, the wheels often slipped, making the locomotives emit a terrifying sound that sent me hiding under the blankets on my bunk bed. The headlight lit up the trees bordering the tracks, producing an eerie glow through the leaves and branches. It didn't bother me a bit when diesels took over, but now I love to see the rare one that rumbles through on an excursion trip.There are few sounds are as lonely as the blast of  steam whistles in the night, signaling that a monster is coming to frighten young children..

The General completed

The Rookery

This building was shipped to America  along with many others from the same farm in Normandy in the early 1900s and reassembled with the help of a railroad spur specifically built to haul the materials to the site.

It was a rookery, where pigeons were raised as a meat source.