Okay, it’s confession time. I’m directionally challenged, but I’m getting out my maps of the world. Will you be my witness and travel companion? From Georgia to Gallup, Greece to Gibraltar, I’m determined to go to my grave without taking another wrong turn.
terry steinmetz says: Oh, how beautiful! I am imagining sitting by the brook reading & day-dreaming. What a treasure!
Winnie Nielsen says: What a view!
bonnie ellis says: Ah, water…what much of the world needs. It’s a precious commodity. We are lucky to have water now that has brought us out of a certain drought.
Winnie Nielsen says: Was this a barn for cattle or a home? It has the windows and smoke stack like a home but the doors look like barn doors.
MaryJane says: My guess is a homestead shop with a forge in back.
Karlyne says: That’s a great vista, with the modern-looking bridge in the background!
bonnie ellis says: Is that in Idaho? I don’t think we have any weathered buildings still standing in Minnesota. They are usually taken down. That picture makes me wonder what the story is behind it all. If only buildings could talk.
Winnie Nielsen says: The details of this photo are so perfect they almost seem painted. The bees wings are just beautiful and clear as glass.
bonnie ellis says: Gosh, that is beautiful! Bees are so fascinating.
Winnie Nielsen says: Little outdoor kitchen arrangements that maximize enjoying as much time as possible in beautiful quiet spaces. The relatively dry prairie climate is ideal for such an arrangement!
Cindi says: Where DO you find these things? This immediately stirs up the shadows of my imagination making me think of all sorts of possibilities for this, for both its past and present – all of them (so far) involving fresh air, warm fire, good food and lots of laughter.
Megan Rae says: Mom bought it at an antique store in her hometown of Ogden, Utah a few years ago. She shipped it home in a slightly heavy box!
Winnie Nielsen says: I think that is the fireside pit we used?!
Megan Rae says: That’s your hammock!
Cindi says: Those are pretty 🙂 Cherry blossoms? Hope we have a good cherry season ~ my dehydrator is bored.
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Hmmm, I think we need an old fashion Amish Barn Raising here!
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When I see things like this I think of them as natures artwork ~ the lines, shades, dark/light, the story behind it and even the physics. They put my mind in a completely different place and just fascinate me! I want to get up close to examine it ~ step back to savor it. Isn’t that weird? Maybe, but that sort of weird once lead me and my son to find actual fingerprints in chink of an Anasazi ruin in Arizona… which, of course, lead to more examination, fascination and savoring 🙂
Oh, the stories this barn could tell!
CJ