The mailboxes at the end of the driveway, with the barn and the silo's behind. The sign says "Holden" which is the name of the farm.
The birch lined driveway. At the top you can see the barn on the right, the woodshed/toolshed/shop straight ahead, and on the left our house (behind the reddish bush) and the farm house behind that again.
Our little house is 300 years old, and used to be the bake and brew house on the farm. 
Looking right from where Topsy sat on the front step you see the barn: a loafing barn for 45 milk cows + calves, bulls and heifers. The milking is done by a Delaval milking robot.
Looking left from the front step you see first the Stabbur, or storehouse. 
After the storehouse comes the machine shed and then the Forge, which we are using as a place to store garden tools, bicycles etc. 
Our house seen from the Forge.
Also seen from the forge, the main farmhouse which is actually directly across from our house, maybe 30 yards from front door to front door.
I love seeing pictures of your home and the countryside! I have a book about Swedish handcrafts that has lots of information about house construction going back quite far in time... some big similarities to what I see in your pictures. We have no 300 year old buildings here, I can guarantee!
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