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Springtime at Landis Valley Museum

April 11th, 2010 | Posted in Jennifer MacNeill-Traylor

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Scenes from Landis Valley

November 4th, 2009 | Posted in Jennifer MacNeill-Traylor

Since my father so kindly bought us a family membership to Landis Valley Museum, I thought I would try to head over there more and not just on special events. Well, the place was a ghost town yesterday despite the gorgeous weather. Zoe and I had a great time chatting with all the animals, which outnumbered the visitors. The funniest thing of all was this female turkey. The friendliest fowl I’ve ever met. She seemed to enjoy being petted and followed us around! In fact I think all the animals enjoyed our attention.

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Landis Valley Farm Museum

October 12th, 2009 | Posted in Jennifer MacNeill-Traylor

On Sunday my father treated us to a member ship at the Landis Valley Farm Museum. This weekend they were having their Harvest Days which is my favorite time of year to go. It’s nice to know that I can got to all the events there for a year free now! In the spring they have a great herb and heirloom plant/seed faire they also have a wonderful event for children at Christmas and on Sundays in the summer I believe they have ice cream socials. Plus Zoe (and I) can learn all sorts of cool things like how they used to make lace or candles or how they baked bread in an outdoor over. How to use oxen to plow fields, dying, spinning and weaving wool, what an old fashioned general store looked like. I find the whole place fascinating!

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Halloween Show

September 30th, 2009 | Posted in Jennifer MacNeill-Traylor

As I’m wishing all my Ehag friends well this weekend at the Ghoultide Gathering, I’m also happy to show a few pieces of my Halloween artwork in my town’s gallery, State of the Art (so named, I imagine, because it’s on State Street). The show wasn’t entirely ready yet when I stopped in today but two of paintings were in the window and looking quite nice. I bought a cool tile skeleton from Maggie Mowery and already have him hanging in my kitchen. I really want one of those skull paintings! This gallery does a wonderful job of showing local artists and artisans.
I also really want that carved Easter Island Moai for my garden!

Saw this pretty rose on my way out to the car. I love how it looks next to the peeling paint.

I’ve also been dying to check out this little cemetery around the corner. Most of the graves were unreadable. The one I could read was from the early 1800′s. We have a lot of these old forgotten cemeteries around here.

I like how the picket fence has made cross-like shadows on the tombstones.
Hauntingly beautiful.

One last thing… a little pumpkin painting on canvas.
Currently for sale on Ebay!

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Lancaster County

May 7th, 2009 | Posted in Jennifer MacNeill-Traylor

It’s what I like about living in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, you walk out your front door and you’re bound to see farm animals sooner or later. Zoe and I just walked across the street and through some woods and weeds (and poison ivy – yikes) and we found this bucolic scene complete with cows, mules, creek and buttercups. Wish I could have gotten close enough to the Canada geese couple and their newly hatched goslings, they were still yellow and fluffy! The funny part about the area where I live is that you have new $500,000+ homes and Amish farms right next door. I think it that big house looks out of place, don’t you?