Today we have our first significant snow and icy roads in Louisville so I thought it might be an appropriate time to show you a different kind of fence. Look closely at the lower right hand corner of this photo and you'll see a snow fence on the rooftop which is used to control the movement of snow in places with heavy snowfall. Like here in Kiev, the capital city in Ukraine. I took this photo from my apartment window in December 2001 when I spent almost a month working with farm councils in the Carpathian Mountains of western Ukraine.
Before I retired I worked for a large farm organization, teaching leadership, board training, strategic planning, and cooperative council work. One of my most unusual work assignments was to go to Ukraine under the sponsorship of U.S. Citizen's Network for Foreign Affairs Agribusiness Volunteer Program. I worked with mostly women farmers in western Ukraine helping them to set up farm councils. They were just learning to operate privately owned farms since being under communist collective farms up until the mid-1990s.
I've written two posts about my work there and the experience of visiting Ukrainian farms, living in a remote mountain village with a local family. There's lots of on the scene photos and tales of adventures and mis-adventures if you're interested in a peek at another culture.
# 1 Ukraine Assignment
# 2 Zakarpattia Women
For other Friday Fence photos, be sure to stop by Janis' place at Life According to Jan and Jer
I'm not sure how those fences are supposed to work. I wouldn't think you would want to keep it piled on the roof. :)
ReplyDeleteYou have quite an impressive resume. :) It must have been very satisfying work.
what a great view there. i had to do a double take to find it. very lovely. (:
ReplyDeleteHow interesting to have a snow fence on the roof. I have read about your work Faye, looking back on these pictures...I bet it really makes you miss those days!
ReplyDeleteHow very interesting Faye. You must have really felt a sense of accomplishment in your work. Thanks for sharing those posts again with us and the photo of the snow fence. They must really get dumped on in Ukraine!
ReplyDeleteFaye...I had to laugh at your comment on my blog about the two fences. It made me remember way back in my very first home...we had a chain link fence that was green...three sides belonged to us n the fourth side belonged to both her and us...when it came time to paint the fence (green again) she asked us to leave the one side silver. We were nice n left it alone although it drove me crazy seeing 3 greens n one silver!!!!
ReplyDeleteSnow fence on the roof that is interesting ^_^ Thanks for sharing and I'm a new follower too. Happy weekend!
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Thanks for visiting my blog, I appreciate you taking the time to leave your thoughts! This is very interesting. I too, be you miss the Ukraine. I have a dear friend who recently adopted two children from the Ukraine. She loves the country and the people. Have a super weekend!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting assignment that must have been to teach women used to collective farming how to act more independently.
ReplyDeleteWe have snow fences here...but on fields. The thing is, right now you have more snow than we do. How did that happen, after all I'm in Ontario, Canada?
I must admit I've never seen a rooftop snow fence before....we have them in various locations along the highways here in the mountains, although there is no snow this winter.
ReplyDeleteI never knew about fences like that
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wonderful photo of the area
great post; what an interesting lead up to your retirement; fascinating!
ReplyDeleteHow very interesting! I've never seen a snow fence before...I've just started blogging but I love it because you learn something new every day!
ReplyDeletethat is a great idea, to put the snow fence on the roof, we have sand fences here to control the movement of the beach sand, these look very similar.
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