This is an aerial photo of my house and my husband's gunshop. They sit on 25 acres of wooded mountainside, overlooking a beautiful valley.
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This is what my farmhouse looked like when we first moved here. That was almost 25 years ago, and we have made MANY changes, both inside and out. The style is "classic Tennessee farmhouse", built in the 1930's by a farmer, not a builder. Much of the wood came from the trees on the property, and the foundation and wall between the upper and lower yard are made of rocks gathered from the mountain behind the house. |
In 1994, we gave up on painting and had the house sided in pale gray vinyl,
and in 1997, we replaced the old shutters with new forest green ones. So much
for exterior upkeep. Now all I have to do is change the porch decorations with
the seasons.....................
Looking
up Blackburn Mtn. Road from the front porch and seeing the dogwood and redbud
of an early Tennessee spring.
Looking
up Blackburn Mtn. Road from the front porch and seeing nothing but ice and snow
and the promise of a dark, cold Tennessee winter.
This
is Hickory Valley, looking across the road from the porch. This is how it looked
very early one spring morning............
...........and this is how it looked on a cold, dreary winter day.
The valley is beautiful in every season, and especially so when the sun is setting behind Milk Sick Mountain, and another day is ending.
Song: "Here,There, and Everywhere"