On her Idaho Scenic Images Facebook wall, Linda Lantzy posts this photo of the ruins of the old Alder gold mine near Mackay, Idaho, on her "Abandoned Places" album.

Top Post: When I was a teenager, we lived on a little farm just outside of Spokane, where my Dad practiced being a gentleman farmer while keeping his day job as a reporter for The Spokane Chronicle. He bought a beat up old tractor and drove it around the fields, plowing just to plow. With that tractor, he built a fairly large vegetable garden outside the back yard. To get to the garden, he built an old fashioned stile. Three steps up to a landing, three steps down to the peas, beets, carrots, beans, corn, tomatoes, lettuce. We had everything you would want for vegetables. It was a heady scent, to sit on the stile at night in the moonlight/JeanieSpokane, Nuts & Nonsense. More here.

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Question: Did you have an equivalent of the "Kissing Gate" at your place when you were growing up?