Old Family Cemetery

The Martin Family Cemetery is a small family cemetery located on Big Spring Farm in New Holland. It dated back to the 1700's.

Log Cabin

This restored log cabin is located on the Martin homestead  on Big Spring Farm in New Holland.  The farm has been bought by a group of Mennonite farmers that are restoring it back to its original state.  The property also has a museum filled with farm equipment, a restored Spring House and are currently restoring a fruit cellar.  They are open to the public twice a year.

Free Ice Cream!

One thing about Lancaster County is, if you want a crowd, offer free ice-cream!  This is the hitching post outside of Sensenig's Hardware, on 1020 Sensenig Rd in Ephrata.  Sensenig's Hardware is an old hardware store out in the country where you can find everything that "modern" stores used to sell.  Their clientele is mostly Horse and buggy Mennonite.

Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence!

 

These foals are 3 weeks old.  They will stay by their Mothers side and nurse for about 5 months before they are released to the "weanling" pasture. They will hang out with the same sex foals until they are yearlings and ready for training.

American Quilter’s Society Quilt Show

Every March, Lancaster County hosts a Quilt show bringing 20,000 quilters into the area from 48 states and at least 4 countries.  Fabric stores like The Old Country Store in Intercourse PA extend their hours until 12:00 and have huge fabric sales.  More than 200 quilts in Freedom Hall at the Lancaster County Convention Center  were competing for $44,250 in cash awards. 

 Congratulations to  Cindy Seitz-Krug  of Bakersfield, California, for her quilt, SIMPLY SANTA FE, which won the $10,000 prize for the Best of Show category.

Next show will be March 13- 16, 2013

Spring has arrived!

With weather in the 70's its hard to keep the farmers out of their fields.  Spring is about 3 weeks early this year.  Everything is beginning to turn green, the daffodils and early spring flowers are in full bloom and today I noticed the tulip tree are blooming.