Michael's Home in White

My mom, sister, and I lived on Grandma and Papa's farm, Michael's Home, from the time I was about 4 until I was 12. I loved those years at the Null homestead just north of Taneytown. I'll write much more about the farm in another post, but here are a few pictures that my aunt Susie found when looking through Grandma's photos. We don't know who the photographer(s) was.

Susie thinks this was taken in the very late 1800s. That's Michael's Home at the top of the hill. Many a Null grew up there. I love that shot of the horse-drawn sled in action!
This one appears to have been taken in the 1940s or 1950s. Notice the Taneytown water towers in the background, south of the farm.

Uncle Ed believes this one was taken in the 1950s or 60s. Its vantage point is situated where there is now the Meadow -something or other development. That's the main barn with the silo, the small dairy house in the middle, and the horse barn on the left.

Kind of a White Christmas

This photo was taken on Dec. 20 during the Blizzard of 2009 -- we got nearly 2 feet out of it and 3 days off school, which meant that Sylvie's Christmas break started very early and we'll end up with 17 days straight of no school!

Christmas was a great one this year -- because of the blizzard, we missed our Ziegler Christmas at Lisa's, but we're rescheduling for this weekend. The Fuhrmans and Haskinses came here for Christmas Eve, and we all went back to the farm in Taneytown for our Null Christmas this year. It was wonderful to be back "home."

The lower photo is of my kids and Lisa's at Michael's Home, our family farm in Taneytown, MD. There was definitely leftover snow from the blizzard on Christmas morning, but the rain of the day and the rain and wind of that night made for a muddy, virtually snowless day on the 26th.