Old Guilford County Barn

Here we see a barn in Northwest Guilford County on a cold, colorless winter day. At one time, this wooden building was a full-service barn on a thriving farm. Now, it looks like most structures in the holding pattern of "tear down" status; the land is more valuable than the buildings on it. Before you know it, this acerage will be a new neighborhood, named by a naming consultant for what used to be on the property (Falling Barn Trace, Weather Vane Estates, Grassy Meadow Farms, Gatewood Estates etc.). Regardless, the barn exudes a haunting, poetic aura and the scene looks like something Andrew Wyeth would paint-- especially if someone were walking towards the horizon..............

Happy Monday folks. This week starts the first of about eight weeks in a row without a holiday or teacher work day. However, it is starting to seem like old-man winter has a weather event in his back pocket. If it snows, we're heading back to this barn to get some snow photos. 

Comments

[Janis Of So Cal]

Beautiful barn,full of character where once it was surely full of a life's work.
The fields all around have that dry,brown, bitter cold look to them .
I find the habit of naming new housing tracts for the very thing they destroyed so wrong and vile on the one hand but I harbor hope that at least it might keep a memory of place and time alive. We have streets named for Oranges and lemons and the ranches they grew on,perhaps one day a child will ask what a Valencia is while walking down that avenue,I can only hope the parent/friend will have the right answer.

[Ernest Thompson]

Nice photo.