Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: farming

Taken on a day rather like today, early in 2006, with my Minolta SRT-101. Rural Eaton County.... Same location, different angle .

Yesterday's cattle live in this structure. Or lived, I suppose, since both photos were taken nearly five years ago. This pic comes from the same early-2006 roll of film. I call this the "McCargar Barn" because they owned the property in 1896, which I learned from an old plat map. There was a long-abandoned house just up the hill from here--it would probably show at the extreme left in this photo--but since Joan doesn't recall it, it was gone by 1995. Before the current(?) owners added those impressive buttresses, it looked to be only a matter of weeks until the wall fell outward, taking the barn down with it. Glad they saved the place, but the setup still looks decidedly makeshift. Another, color, photo of the same barn , taken a few weeks before. With cows.

Fernando, Minnesota. The swing's in Preacher Debra 's yard.

Apologies for the late post today. I've been distracted by Randall Munroe , and by his minions . A year ago today I drove into town for breakfast at Bob Evans, then stopped at the credit union on my way back. I took photos coming and going, and got some I was pleased with. Then I posted a novelty shot.... I've really not much to say about this specific photograph. I rather like it, though. ========== Got home, and found The King of All Cats staring me down from the neighbor's walk. Blondie'd been lording it over the other local cats for 8 or 9 months at this point, but his reign was about to end. To this cat . Blondie's an apparently-feral cat who was born in the remnants of the grain elevator at the end of our street. While still quite young he discovered that one of our neighbors puts food out for the wild kitties, so he started hanging around down here. He was just a gorgeous kitten--a blond ball of fluff. When he banished the previous king--a noisy and mean ol' tom--we were quite pleased. Blondie's still around--we see him every now and then. Some days it looks like he plans to reclaim his throne. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 11 Title of " roll :" Out and About Other photos taken on 3/27/2012: none.