Hello Cheryl.
Thanks for the nice comments re. the pic.
I was driving in North Florida a few weeks back and came across this great old farm. This is just a portion of a picture of several I shot. It reminded me of my boyhood days visiting my relatives farms in South Ga. Wanted to go in and talk with the people who live there, but did not have the time that day. I may yet go back.
Steve
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Originally Posted by Cheryl Carpente Hello, Everyone. I am over 50...but just barely! Laughing. When I googled "cattle gap" for a project I'm working on, I found this! May I ask where the picture was made? I grew up in a rural area in central Mississippi way back in the twentieth century, and most of our neighbors had cows and corn cribs and gardens with the Kentucky Wonder pole beans climbing their tee-pees....and cattle gaps. Ours were not made of pipes, but of creosote ties (kind of like railroad ties, but smaller). The rectangular hole over which the ties were laid was called a culvert. Thank you for the picture; it revived some warm memories. (To the best of my knowledge, cattle gaps were never used for "squat and go" purposes because they were close to the road and someone might be driving past)!
Oh, the project I am working on is about fences, and I am gathering ideas about the literal and figurative fences in the August Wilson play, "Fences." |
07-06-2006, 11:24 AM
