dudley farm

the old road to the farm

front bedroom

airing quilts on the back porch

the kitchen house

the garden

corn husk broom

Fred

This is the last of my Florida posts.

Dudley farm was built in 1855 and remains an historic

working farm just outside of Gainesville.

What I love about Dudley is that you must park in a lot

and then walk the old road back to the farm.

That short walk has the power to transport you back in time.

Florida is mostly sand covered as is apparent from the garden photo.

There is a small herd of cattle, a horse, a mule and chickens

that are year round residents.

The kitchen is in a separate building just behind the house,

as Florida summers can be very hot and humid.

I absolutely love the corn husk broom!

Would love to make one of my own.

A quilt in progress hangs on a frame suspended over

the beds in the front bedroom.

Thanks for allowing me to share some of my favorite holiday photos.

Now it's back to making things!

marjorie kinnan rawlings home

garden outside the kitchen

typewriter on the front screened porch

peeking through a high and tiny closet window

workshop in the barn

We visited the home of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings in Cross Creek.

She is best known for her novel The Yearling about a boy who adopts 

an orphaned fawn and for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.

Unfortunately the home was not open for tours 

so I had to peek my camera up against window screens!

I like to think the area hasn't changed too much since she lived there.

A few more homes and the paving of the road perhaps,

but it's still considered rural Florida and for that I love it.