The Cole family farm was sold recently, after many generations in The County. We were fortunate to have the opportunity for one final bittersweet visit to see the place in all its autumn splendor.
Spanning 100 acres, The Farm runs ten fields back to a wooded creek. With nobody left able to farm the place, the fields have been rented for years, this year yielding up the neighbour's soybeans.
The house is old and was built in several phases over the years to accommodate an increasingly large rural family.
The barn was rebuilt in 1948, after a fire.....and remains in mighty good shape for the shape she's in!
This is the one place that has consistently felt like home for my entire life - as I walk the property, childhood memories come flooding back of my sister and cousins thrashing around in colourful leaf piles on the front lawn, or the "door yard" as my grandmother always called it.
Many Christmas mornings in that living room.....many Thanksgiving dinners around that kitchen table.
I'm going to miss it.
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