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.
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.
Posted by: Janis Of So Cal | Monday, January 23, 2012 at 05:41 PM
Nice photo.
Posted by: Ernest Thompson | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 10:22 AM