These were taken 2 or 3 years ago...they are all drive-by shots. 
I love the cupolas of the first and last barn...and I love the weathered boards of the one above.
This last one is so interesting to me...I would love to be able to see the interior. I cannot help but wonder about the placement of the doors and windows.
I don't know whether it is all the westerns I have read, or what, but I love finding long-horned cattle. They fascinate me. This one did not seem unfriendly...she just seemed to look at me as if she wondered what I was doing.
This is another quilt barn from Tennessee. I hit the jackpot when we went on that drive. I had been on the road just 4 years ago and I don't remember seeing any of them, so they must be a new thing for there. Then again, my memory is not all that it used to be so who knows?
A couple of different barns for Barn Charm....both on a hillside...both taken while we paused in our drive. Both are in Tennessee.
These were about the only options for shots with the terrain around the barns. I sort of like the last one anyway, but wish I could have gotten a better view of it. 
I have no idea of the history of this house/apartmment building. It always seems sort of out of place. As if it should be a big country estate. Instead, it is on a little street in the Gap...
There is nothing any cuter than a calf...I cannot help but smile in the spring when every where we go, we see new life emerging. Not just in plants, but all the other babies that start to arrive.
I only had a slight chance at a shot of this courthouse at all...Roger would have stopped but we still had 650 +/- a few miles left to go so did not want to stop on the way to Tennessee...then on the way back home, we just wanted to get home. However, I hope someday to go back there for lots of pictures. It was a beauty....
I think there is a strange contrast with between the weathered barn and the spring green of things when these were taken.
I liked the different door that was on this...or half on anyway. It looks as if this has been painted at one time...
but the back side does not appear to have ever been touched with a paint brush. This makes me wonder was it built with used materials.
How would you like this to be your funeral home? Maybe an unpleasant thought, but isn't it a beauty? This is a drive-by shot if you haven't guessed...traffic was bad and I was lucky to get even this.
I did not know which of these views I liked best, so just posting both of them. I do like it in B&W best....
It was near an abandoned house...but the house had a big satellite dish in the back yard. I had to get at this angle to cut it out of the picture.
Even the Cumberland Gap Town Hall has a quilt block....for some reason of all the quilt buildings I took, for the most part I cannot name the quilt blocks used. Some of them, such as this one, really look familiar but I cannot think for the life of me its name. If you know any of them, please feel free to tell me in your comment.
There is a bicycle museum in Cumberland Gap...and if I remember correctly it was run on donations. We were not in the mood to go in it on this visit, but maybe next time. A couple of guys there told us it was a good one.
These barns were taken on our drive April 26, while in Tennessee...
The top one was a drive by, the bottom two I think we actually paused and I took them.
I really like this last one best...feel like I can lean on that fence almost.
This pair of doves sat quietly while I took their photo...it did not seem to scare them at all. I think they are such gentle looking creatures....
Just think of the person/family that built this house...just what would they think if they could see it now. I bet it was a real beauty in its day...now it seems no one loves it or gives it a thought.
We took one good drive while in Tennessee....we went on back roads that were barely wide enough for one car to drive. We passed this and I am saying...stop, stop....back up....I had to have a picture of this. You would not believe how far off the beaten path we were.
I think there is part of this missing....but I like the texture of the wood. It gives a feeling of timelessness.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel...but you cannot see it until you walk a ways back in it. This goes through the mountain....and I have walked through it. You don't have to walk too terrible far to see the light at the other end, but it is a long ways through the tunnel.
With our little trip to Tennessee, I got a good supply of new barns. Some will be used for this meme, while others I will just scatter along through the posts. This barn was on a road called Little Valley Rd. in Tennessee. 
It looks to have had some serious use in its time...and is probably still used. As you can see the doors are out of kilter...
but the barn as a whole does not look too bad.
This was growing near the old mill in Cumberland Gap. I thought it was just gorgeous.
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