Summer Country Cruise......

Its a bright sun shinny day today and Marlon and I have decided to take a cruise in the country.  We jumped into our yellow Honda S 2000 and away we went with no place particular in mind.  Boy is it nice to see all the bright green leaves on the trees.   I can remember when there were no leaves on the trees, boy do  I LOVE SUMMER.........

Before you know it we are in Mechanicsburg Ohio and have stopped at their park. My husband's Mom has a tree that was dedicated to her.  I went to find the tree and get a picture of it.  The tree had a plaque directly in front it On the plaque was Marlon's Mom's name Vonna Charles.  What a great place to put the tree, directly in front of the shelter.  The park where the tree is has some real nice playground equipment, Vonna's tree is already producing shade on those hot summer days.

 I Love barns and this one has some nice detail on it.  Check out the cupola's on top of the barn. 
 I really love to take pictures of old barns and bridges.  So far on the cruise we have seen a field of round hay bales, a beautiful bridge, an old barn that is about ready to fall down, and some neat cupola's of top of the barns.

 We have come across this bridge that has some neat architecture on it. Looks like it was built in 1914 by Central Concrete company from Canton Ohio.  The bridge was located over the Big Darby River.

 This farm was pretty neat.  It had a cow painted on one barn, a big concrete chicken out front of one of the barns.  I saw no house on the property but the barns are being well taken care of.

 Another barn I came across looked like it was going to fall down at any moment.  If you look through the barn door opening you will see another big barn that also is about ready to fall down.

 Who doesn't like cupola's?  This barn had a cupola with a weather vane on the top, with a horse.  Wow this farm is  just amazing and is in great condition. :-)

 See the hay wagon?  It brings back so many memories for me.  My Grandpa Grooms would put us kids on the wagon and hook the tractor up to it.  He would then pull us over to the woods and let us play.  Boy how I miss those days on the tobacco farm of my Grandpa Grooms.  In those days the pop was in bottles and after the men would get done in the fields a cold pop would be brought to them.  Grandpa Grooms would let us pick up the bottles and let us turn them in for money.  Boy I used to think I was rich with all that money.  I could buy a cold pop for me and lots of candy at the corner store in West Union, Ohio.  Those were the days.

 This barn caught my attention because it still has some hay in it. Have I mentioned that I'm taking these pictures from the car as we are driving along.  Yikes......they really are not bad for a car going at least 55mph.

 Like the roof line on this barn and really like the big silo's that are behind it.

NICE BIG RED BARN AND SILO.......its the end of our journey today and its time to go home and have lunch.  Thanks for enjoying our country cruise with us.