December 19, 2009

Nifty!

A gallery of old barns (via Biomes Blog).

1 comment:

big em said...

I looked at the link to try to figure out if this pic was purportedly authentic, or if it was a Photoshop exercise - - it looks TOO BIZARRE to be real. WTF IS it? The other ones in the link are all genuine looking.

NOTE: Self-indulgent soliloquy coming up.
I like old barns...probably because I grew up next to one that always seemed to be a 'presence' in much of my life. When we were little, it was always so mysterious/foreboding since we were warned repeatedly to STAY OUT OF IT ! (And there ARE a LOT of 'good' ways to hurt yourself in those places.) In my early/mid- teens, I worked summers for the farmer who owned it and helped pack bales of hay into (and out of) it, and it took on a more mundane tone. Eventually it fell into disuse and a couple of years ago was torn down (along with 2 adjacent concrete silos) and now a brand new suburban-style house is on the exact same location, which certainly presents a diminished experience for neighboring kids...