Illustration Friday - "Skyline on the Farm"

(Drawn with Micron pen and Prismacolor markers on Koh-I-Noor vellum. For my whole blog, click here)

This skyline is precious to me! I grew up in the South, but spent many summers growing up at my grandparents' farm in Michigan. They have a 200-acre farm that has been in my Grandpa's family for about 125 years now. Gramma and Grandpa got married and built this farmhouse over 60 years ago, next to the barns and big farmhouse where his parents lived. When I was little, Grandpa worked at the truck factory in town, but he and Gramma still farmed all the land, with wheat and soybeans. They also had a big garden that we all worked in. My mom's old horse was in the pasture across the road, but that was all. When my Mom was little, they had dairy cows in the barn, and chickens too. My Mom remembers when there was an outhouse at the end of the little cement path in the yard, and when the section of the house (on right above) with the bathroom and 2 bedrooms was built on. My Grandpa grew up here, and dropped out of school at 13 to take over running the farm when my Great-Grandpa had a stroke (heart-attack?). My great-grandparents bought one of the earliest cars, but my Grandpa was the one to learn to drive it and he was quite the catch in their little town! My 90 year old Gramma (see June 2006 post "Portrait") still lives there by herself.