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    I'm a farm wife, a mama and a photographer living in Virginia.

    My camera is typically filled with images of sunrises, dusty fields, even dustier children and whatever we happen to be planting or harvesting at the time.

    Thanks for visiting the farm!

    - Jennifer Warthan

Monthly Archives: November 2008

Finishing Up

  The Cotton Husband has been working from sunup whenever he finishes his stack of pancakes til well after sundown trying to get in the last acres of soybeans. I told my friend Anna the other day that I was seriously considering disabling the headlights on the combine. Because you know… I totally know how…

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The Last of the Peanuts

As you might recall from previous posts on peanuts (say that three times fast), it’s important to harvest when the peanuts are mature. Peanuts are usually “graded” much higher when picked at optimum maturity.     Sometimes this means that it gets late in the year and you’re also trying to beat the frost.  …

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Capturing the Moment

CH: “Sugar! Come here and get a picture with the baby and Miss Bitty!!”   Me: “But she’s sitting on the ground. With no socks. And she doesn’t match at all. My mom will see these!!”   CH: “Oh, who cares. It’ll be so cute! Look how cute she is! Just take the pictures.”  …

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