Showing posts with label Barn charm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barn charm. Show all posts

Monday, February 18, 2013

This Vehicle Stops for Barns...

Yesterday, for some reason, I was determined to get a photo of a barn in East Brookfield that I really love and pass on my way to and from church.  I didn't remember to stop on the way to church, so I had to do it on the way home.  Turns out, I had to go around the "block" three times in order to ditch the cars that were following me.  I'm surprised that the people across the street from this barn didn't call the police thinking I was some kind of stalker or something.  Even with three chances, I didn't get a really good shot off because, lo and behold, third time around, there was a car coming up pretty quickly in the distance.  I thought I could do this all day and never be free of traffic so I went with what I managed to get.  Here it is:


Later on, I was looking through my Facebook page and saw the following photo on "FotoBridge" one of the photography pages I like on there:


I found the discussion about this window sticker pretty interesting.  Instead of finding the humor in it, most people fretted that it would give away that the person in this car has a car full of expensive camera equipment and doesn't mind advertising it for all the thieves to see.  I guess I can see the point.  I don't generally leave my camera in the car but I guess if I did, I wouldn't want this sticker to advertise the fact that I do.  Still...this could have come in handy for me yesterday when I was trying to get a decent photo of that darn barn.

LINKING TO BLUFF AREA DAILY'S BARN CHARM.




Monday, November 19, 2012

Tired old barn...

I pass this patched up beauty now and then.  I was glad that no one was behind me on the road the day I took this pic.


Linking to Bluff Area Daily's Barn Charm.



Monday, September 24, 2012

Hadley barn…

The other day when the kids and I were trying to go to Skinner Mountain, we ended up having an ice cream at an ice cream stand instead.  Across the street from the ice cream stand was this nice tobacco barn.  So the trip wasn’t a complete waste after all.




LINKING TO BLUFF AREA DAILY'S BARN CHARM.


Monday, September 3, 2012

A tobacco barn…


Before we moved to these parts, I always thought of tobacco as a crop grown in the southern United States.  Therefore, it was a surprise to me when I found out that the long narrow windowless barns that are seen near Bradley (Hartford, Connecticut) Airport are tobacco barns.  Apparently, there are quite a few farms in the Connecticut River Valley that grow and dry tobacco that is used in cigar wrapping. 

I have been on the lookout for a good one to photograph for some time now.  And yesterday on our way home from a holiday cook out, Greg and I hit the jackpot.  Here are some pictures of this very interesting barn we found near Northampton, Massachusetts.  Believe me, I am no fan of tobacco and tobacco related products, but I find these barns quite beautiful and endlessly fascinating.








Monday, August 13, 2012

Barn in Griswold, CT…


I’m posting a photo of a barn I took in Griswold, Connecticut, when Greg and I went down to check out the sunflowers.  The barn is beautiful and all but the sunflowers were spectacular so I am going to post another pic of the sunflowers.  After all, who doesn’t love sunflowers?



Here's the same picture in color.  This is the one I'm using on my Facebook page right now.  I like this particular picture better in black and white though.

Linking to Bluff Area Daily’s Barn Charm.



Monday, August 6, 2012

Drive by shootings: Dual purpose barn…


I’ve seen many barns with advertisements on them.  But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one advertising an indoor water park.  This one is somewhere near Erie, Pennsylvania.



Linking to Bluff Area Daily's Barn Charm.


Monday, July 30, 2012

Grey barns…


Here are a couple more of the barns Carrie and I saw on our trip out to western Massachusetts…



Linking to Bluff Area Daily's BARN CHARM.




Monday, July 23, 2012

Yellow barn…


I’ve been feeling completely uninspired lately.  So to help me out of my funk, I went out to visit my daughter Carrie and we went for a ride out in the country in Western Massachusetts.  On our ride, we came across this gorgeous yellow barn on a back road.

  Riding the back roads in the country is a sure way to get inspiration.

"1900 Clesson Valley Farm"


Linking to Bluff Area Daily's Barn Charm.


Monday, July 16, 2012

Drive-by shootings: A study in contrasts…


Here are a couple of barns I shot last month while driving through Ohio.  Obviously one has seen better days and the other is in pretty good shape.




Linking to Bluff Area Daily’s Barn Charm.




Monday, July 9, 2012

Late Entry Barns…




I got carried away watching Prince Fielder win the Home Run Derby tonight and forgot all about adding my barns to Barn Charm.  But it’s not too late so here they are.  Some more of the barns I picked up on our recent trip to Ohio.  Sleep tight, you all!






Linking to Bluff Area Daily's BARN CHARM.




Monday, July 2, 2012

Drive by shootings: Ohio Barns…


We drove by a lot of barns on our recent trip to Ohio.  I drove a lot of the way through Pennsylvania so I didn’t really get any good shots until we reached Ohio.

I guess “good” is relative.  These are “good” for driving by at 70-75 mph but you notice that I did do a bit of messing with them to try to hide their flaws.  Here are my barns for Barn Charm this week.





LINKING TO Bluff Area Daily's BARN CHARM.




Monday, June 11, 2012

Hungarian barn...

Here's one of the barns we saw in Hungary.  Not too much like our American barns.  I love the thatched roof.



This good looking dude was hanging out in one of the barns.



Linking to Barn Charm!



Monday, May 14, 2012

Drive by Shootings: Barns on the Fly…


Well, I had a very nice weekend and a very nice Mother’s Day.  My weekend was full of graduation to dos at Syracuse University where my son Evan received his Masters Degree in Library and Information Science.  I took about 6 million pictures.  Okay, I exaggerate.  I actually took about 600.  And I will get to them soon, I hope.  Meanwhile, I did a quick clean up of a couple of the barns we passed on Interstate 90 on our way to the graduation and that is what I am posting tonight. 

Later I will show you a pic or two of the graduate and his beautiful sister.  



Linking to Barn Charm at Bluff Area Daily!




Monday, May 7, 2012

Upcycling…


Just dropping in to post a picture of a barn that I forgot about.  Carrie and I found this barn when we went out to Deerfield, Massachusetts last month but somehow it got buried in my stacks and stacks of photos.  I really like this barn because whoever owns it seems to be upcycling old advertising signs to use as tarps for the roof.  How clever is that?   Sure makes for a colorful display.


Linking to Barn Charm @ Bluff Area Daily.



Monday, April 9, 2012

Barns of Deerfield…


Carrie and I spotted a couple of cool barns on our trip out to Deerfield, Massachusetts last week.  I’m going to do a quickie here and post some pics.  Then I have to go to bed.
 
Sleep well all!





Linking to Bluff Area Daily Barn Charm


Monday, March 26, 2012

Digging for barns…


I have been pretty busy the last few days.   Well, really ever since we came home from our vacation in St. John, I’ve been busy with stuff.  You know the way life gets.  So I haven’t had the opportunity to get out and shoot the way I would like to.  But I wanted to link up with Barn Charm today so I went digging.

These pics are from a ride I took out in the country here in Massachusetts about a month ago.  I have them so I might as well use them.  And I have high hopes that I will be out gathering new digital matter for next week so I don’t have to do any digging.



Of course, he's not a barn, but he sure is handsome.