farmhouse

The sky was streaked with spiraling ribbons of smoke that rose from farmhouse chimneys and disappeared into the orange blaze of the sunset.

Without being told, Timothy turned the carriage down a side road that led to some humble farmhouses nearby.

The foreground is a scar of denuded earth, storage tanks and bobbing pumpjacks — the legacy of oil discovered a century ago when only farmhouses were scattered over the surrounding flatlands.

Starting in a landscaping shed in the West, the tunnel went down 9 feet and burrowed toward the yard of a farmhouse on the other side of the wall, 250 feet away.

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, where we lived in a white farmhouse on a ranch that sheltered a variety of rescue animals.