The pines around the barn and the trees all around the old farmstead had all been lightly and uniformly powdered.

He saw quiet and peaceful fields, and a wood descending in a gentle slope from an old farmstead of warm red brick.

And the unlikely front line of the German battle recently was an elegant, 163-year- old farmstead in the Ruhr, which attracted an army of protesters.

Larke's house meant human settlement, and I knew that old farmsteads often included family burials.

The old farmsteads and the few halls in which reside the gentry of the district, stand where they always stood.

Hornbaker is hitting dirt roads partly because he is intrigued by old farmsteads, some with weathered, collapsed barns and houses.

In some places I heard a sort of chirruping sound, as of some forlorn bird haunting the ruins of the old farmsteads.

I turned west onto Route 20, through green fields and past old farmsteads that had once provided food to the area's residents.