Autumn Colors in Central Nebraska & giveaway announced!

10 Oct, 2012

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Winner Announced!

Brenda Nelson

Brenda wrote: “One of my favorite pictures was when our two girls were little. As I went to take their picture the oldest just leaned her head over toward her sister and gave the sweetest smile. I picture that photograph in my head often and it still makes me smile.”

Brenda, please e-mail jennie@herviewfromhome.com to claim your prize!

I always thought abandoned houses had a romantic charm. My friend Leah posted a picture of this house on Facebook. I liked it so much I asked her if I could drive to her family ranch and photograph the house myself. The leaves were such a pretty color and I loved the towering windmill.

This is the Alex Pirnie Homestead at the Cooksley Clear Creek Ranch in Custer County.  This house is located northeast of Broken Bow. Leah’s great-grandfather owned the house. The house was originally constructed with sod, but eventually was turned into a regular home made of wood. Leah’s grandfather, Alex,  faithfully kept a journal documenting interesting events in his life. Apparently when he built the house, he didn’t realize it was an Indian campground. Surprisingly, even after the house was built, the Indians would still camp not far from the house near the creek.

This is the first abandoned house I have been in that was quite full of relics from the past. One of the rooms had a cow tank. This particular room featured a bird cage.  The house has not been inhabited since 1942.

I have been enjoying the beautiful fall colors. This morning I found a pretty maple leaf at Cottonmill Lake near Kearney.

These colorful leaves were found along Highway 2 near Hazard, Nebraska. The sun lit up the leaves giving them a warm glow.

Free Giveway This Week.

Win an 8 x 10 photograph of downtown Kearney.

 

What do you need to do?

1. Click  the “Like” button on Andrea’s Facebook Page:

http://www.facebook.com/Andrea.Kelley.Photography

2. Then, underneath this post, let me know you clicked the “like” button and tell

me a brief story about an interesting “photographic moment.”  One free 8 x 10 printed

on metallic paper will be sent to the person with the most interesting story.

Here is an example…
When I was in first grade, I had my beautiful long hair cut off. I had a boyish haircut, and in my little school, they would hand out combs to the students while they were waiting for their picture to get taken. I was a little nervous. I combed my hair multiple times wanting it to look straight and perfect. Since I had combed my hair so many times, when I got my pictures back, my hair was sticking up due to all of the static electricity that had built up due to all of my incessant combing. They say that your hair stands up before you get struck by lightening. That photo made it look like a storm had been brewing above my head. 

 

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12 Comments

  1. Leah Peterson
    October 04, 2012

    Andrea, Thank you for visiting! We enjoyed your visit, and these photos. You have an amazing talent. :)

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  2. Jennie
    October 04, 2012

    I have always had a love for old farm houses. It was my dream to buy one and fix it up. Alas, my husband says it is WAY smarter to just build a new home. I guess I’ll always have my dreams about these places!!

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  5. Andrea Kelley
    October 04, 2012

    Thanks Leah for letting me check out the ranch. What a beautiful area. That was a lot of fun :-)

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  6. Joni Brooks
    October 04, 2012

    Andrea, I clicked your like button! I love your picture of town town Kearney! I work in the building with the burgundy awning, White’s Advanced Hearing Center! (When we get our website up and going in a few weeks, can we use it??!) One of my interesting photographic moments happened more than once, when my son Derek was in the Kearney High Marching Band. I would take a great picture during a parade or a marching competition and then I would find out it wasn’t Derek, but someone else! He would say, “That’s not me Mom!” I’d say, “Well, tell that kid that I have a great picture of him!”

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  7. ann Snider
    October 04, 2012

    A moment I will never forget was with my first child, Colin. It was back in the days when Sears had a photo studio and that’s where everyone went to have their pictures taken. Colin was about 10 months old and just starting to walk. The lady at Sears sat him up on the photo shoot table and then walked away….It was one of those moments where you know what is going to happen but you just are frozen in time and can’t seem to stop what is about to happen. Sure enough, Colin landed head first on the cement floor. No pictures taken and a son with a huge goose-egg on his noggen. He and his mother did survive and we got our next photo session free with all the pictures we wanted.

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  9. Brenda Nelson
    October 04, 2012

    One of my favorite pictures was when our two girls were little. As I went to take their picture the oldest just leaned her head over toward her sister and gave the sweetest smile. I picture that photograph in my head often and it still makes me smile.

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  10. Aliisa Criffield
    October 05, 2012

    “liked”
    We were getting my 1st child’s 8 month pictures done at the Mall of America. We were running late and trying to find parking and the actual store at MOA is just about impossible. We only had 15 minutes left in the session and the gal was very skeptical we would have time but little Noah put on his charm and smiled and was so cooperative. We got done with time to spare. Phew!

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  11. Jacqueline Schepler
    October 05, 2012

    One of my favorite photo memories was of when my son was just 2 months old and we took him for photos. He was able to push himself up on his arms like a push up and he kept doing it every time we wanted to put him on his tummy. We had him up on a table and I said he’s gonna roll off so I stayed close. Sure enough he pushed up and off the table he went straight into my arms and he smiled. I thought you little devil you and it turned out to be my favorite photo of the day. Still brings a smile to my face.

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