Post by zephyrhillsusan on Feb 27, 2014 22:11:55 GMT -5
After Gene shared the great aerial photo his friend took of his place, that gave me an idea for my DH's birthday coming up in March. He's very hard to find a gift for, so I thought of something different--aerial photos of our farm. I did some research on the internet and found a guy who does about one helicopter shoot a year, and it just happened he was getting ready to go up as soon as they had a cloudless day. He was willing to give me a discount since someone else had booked him, but he only needed half of the hour for that shoot. (He pays his helicopter pilot by the hour.) He came out on Feb. 21. It was supposed to be a surprise for DH, but he was home that day, and I ended up being glad because it was really exciting for both of us to be there with the helicopter hovering overhead. Here are three of the 30 shots he took for us.
This is taken from the rear (west end) of the property. He's actually hovering over the 8 acres of woods up the hill, so you can't see that or the pond. Part of the Back Pasture is cut off; at the left you can see a piece of the old cabin back there. The buildings you can see are, from left, garage of our daughter's former house which was recently torn down; brown barn with red roof and barnyard out front; horse trailer; metal hay barn or quonset hut with brooder house/shed behind it; and finally the house, partially hidden by trees. You can just see our closest neighbor in the upper right corner. There are only 6 families on our road. We're at a dead end with a 450 acre hunting preserve on two sides, the side with the barns and the back. The other side is owned by a family that doesn't use their forest much except for occasional hunting. So it's very nice and peaceful here most of the time.
Here he moved a little more directly to the back of the property. You can see the pond in the lower right corner, almost all of the Back Pasture, and the cabin, which is in the Back Pasture. The stream doesn't usually run, but it obliged us that day! To the right of it is the Lower Pasture, which the stream cuts across. We usually divide it with electric about where the stream cuts across. You can't quite see the run-in shed on the right hand side of that pasture. The central pasture to the left of the stream is getting a new name; it will be (very descriptively!) the Middle Pasture.
That's because we're putting in a new pasture to the left of it and uphill, on the other side of the white fence. Since it's where Kara's house used to be, the new pasture will be called Kara's Pasture. It will run all the way to the brown barn and give access to the barnyard. The pasture directly across from both barns and behind the house is called the Home Pasture.
This shot shows the front yard where we sometimes put up electric and graze the horses. You can see the orchard with fences around the trees at the lower left. It's technically part of the Lower Pasture, but we have it fenced off and haven't had the animals graze in there because the front fence got taken out by a bad flood a couple years ago, and it's still on my Honey-Do list! The backyard area looks very bare because we recently had work done there, and the grass hasn't started growing yet.
So there we are. The light was incredible that day, and it was great because it really made the colors pop. I sort of wished we could have had it done when everything was green, but you can actually see a lot more this way.
Thank you, Gene, for the great idea!
This is taken from the rear (west end) of the property. He's actually hovering over the 8 acres of woods up the hill, so you can't see that or the pond. Part of the Back Pasture is cut off; at the left you can see a piece of the old cabin back there. The buildings you can see are, from left, garage of our daughter's former house which was recently torn down; brown barn with red roof and barnyard out front; horse trailer; metal hay barn or quonset hut with brooder house/shed behind it; and finally the house, partially hidden by trees. You can just see our closest neighbor in the upper right corner. There are only 6 families on our road. We're at a dead end with a 450 acre hunting preserve on two sides, the side with the barns and the back. The other side is owned by a family that doesn't use their forest much except for occasional hunting. So it's very nice and peaceful here most of the time.
Here he moved a little more directly to the back of the property. You can see the pond in the lower right corner, almost all of the Back Pasture, and the cabin, which is in the Back Pasture. The stream doesn't usually run, but it obliged us that day! To the right of it is the Lower Pasture, which the stream cuts across. We usually divide it with electric about where the stream cuts across. You can't quite see the run-in shed on the right hand side of that pasture. The central pasture to the left of the stream is getting a new name; it will be (very descriptively!) the Middle Pasture.
That's because we're putting in a new pasture to the left of it and uphill, on the other side of the white fence. Since it's where Kara's house used to be, the new pasture will be called Kara's Pasture. It will run all the way to the brown barn and give access to the barnyard. The pasture directly across from both barns and behind the house is called the Home Pasture.
This shot shows the front yard where we sometimes put up electric and graze the horses. You can see the orchard with fences around the trees at the lower left. It's technically part of the Lower Pasture, but we have it fenced off and haven't had the animals graze in there because the front fence got taken out by a bad flood a couple years ago, and it's still on my Honey-Do list! The backyard area looks very bare because we recently had work done there, and the grass hasn't started growing yet.
So there we are. The light was incredible that day, and it was great because it really made the colors pop. I sort of wished we could have had it done when everything was green, but you can actually see a lot more this way.
Thank you, Gene, for the great idea!
But I'm so grateful to my daughter for her help and support, I'm glad for her to have it.