I checked up on the family farm east of Peoria in Central Illinois the last weekend of April, and things were looking good even if the fields were very wet, delaying spring planting.
It was very windy, and it was alternating sunny and cloudy all day long.
No longhorns could be spotted at the neighbor’s farm up the road.
There was an interesting update at the former site of the house on Pleasantview Road. A giant mound of earth has been deposited in the lot where the house and outbuildings once stood.
On the way to find a cemetery that I had never visited, I spotted this grain elevator I had never photographed before. It has some huge bins.
That burial ground, the Stumbaugh Cemetery, sits right up against the north side of Interstate 74, and I strongly suspect that a portion of it might very well might have been lost to the highway’s right-of-way.
I could find little to no information on the cemetery.
There is a road that cuts around to the east and then goes into a viaduct that passes under the interstate.
I also stumbled across this interesting church in Eureka, the county seat of Woodford County, east of Tazewell County. It seems to have originally been Carpenter Gothic in style and then got a jazzed up front in the Modernist style in the mid-Twentieth Century.
And the corn crib I photographed back in April of 2022 is still there.
