One barn, many views...

Thought I would share this barn again...it is in nearby Parke County.

The photo above photo is my most often pinned barn photo, or it was if things haven't changed.

I run across it every now and then, but I could not go to it if I wanted to.  When we get out and ramble, we really don't have a destination in mind...we just turn here and there and know that we will eventually figure out where we are.  If not, we can always use GPS....so far, I think we have only had to resort to it one time.

Going to link these with The Barn Collective...

Painted barn....

For the Barn Collective I am using some photos from 2012....

 We were coming home from visiting Lorelei when she lived in Indianapolis and decided to take a detour.  Imagine my surprise when we came across this beauty.

I have always planned to go back and see how it survives but have yet to go.

Someone really put a lot of work into this barn.

I hope you enjoy it half as much as I did.

Tennessee Barns from October...

For the Barn Collective, I am showing a few snapshots from Tennessee...

This one was down in a valley, and this is the best I could do.

 Not fantastic shots, but still they work for me.

 Above is not a barn, but an outbuilding or shed.

It continues to disintigrate...

I have posted photos of this barn several times before but for the life of me I cannot find a single one of them...

These were taken this summer..

And this one is up in that area...just a few miles away.  I would love to get out on a ramble and go up there and see what is left of the first photo.

Linking to The Barn Collective

Barns of Parke County

We pass this barn several times a year...it is near Bridgeton, Indiana

This is the same barn, taken from a different spot...

This barn is just a little way from the first barn...I am pretty sure they are within view of each other.

Linking to The Barn Collective....

Barns from last autumn...

I like this first one as much for the sky as for the barn!

I thought you might like seeing this Amish farm above...if you will expand the view, look at all the solar panels on the house on the extension on the back side. Edited to add:  There is an Amish man hoeing in the garden.   This is a typical Amish home for this area...except for the solar panels.  Wondering if they are allowed to use electric if they produce it with their own solar panels?

This is from driving home from a doctor's appointment in Avon...it looked best in B&W.

Another barn from that drive.

I hope you enjoy them...

linking to the Barn Collective.

From autumn...

There was a post I did a while back with pumpkins on posts, and in the background this barn can be seen.

So I thought I would give a better view of it...

Linking to The Barn Collective.

From October...

This little barn sits near the West Union Covered Bridge in Parke County.  Everything at this place is well maintained.

We saw this barn on the same drive....but not sure it is in Parke Country.

Not sure what the true color of this barn was...this is through the window or windshield, I think side window though.  And I have not altered the color but I do not remember it being this color.  I remember it standing out...being bright. 

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Barns

We passed this little barn back in October...at least I am classifying it as a barn.  I think in reality it might be a workshop.

Or maybe a woodshed.

Now the one below is a barn for sure...

Look at that blue sky!  Isn't it glorious?

I like the play of shadows on the front, too.

Linking to the Barn Collective. 

Parke County Barn

A beauty from last weekend....

I was going to stop and get another view but someone was coming up behind me so we had to move on.  Notice way, way on past the barn in the background is another barn!

I will be linking to the Barn Collective later.

From a beautiful day...

We passed this barn Friday...I love the wide open view...

and I like the zoomed in versions, too.

As always, I wonder how long this barn has been there.  I wonder about the stories this barn could tell.

Linking to the Barn Collective....

Do I dare?

I am not sure if I dare link to The Barn Collective... I hate to link and then not have time to visit the others.  But I am going to attempt it again....this barn is in Parke County.  I have posted other pics of it, but this is a new photo.  The red building is a new addition.

Here I zoomed in a bit...

Another barn in Parke County...not too far from the first barn.

And another view where I zoomed in....

Deceased barns...

Often times I wonder why I am so compelled to take photos.  Well, a while back we were returning home from a little drive, and I was expecting to see this beauty.

I could not believe my eyes...it was no longer there.  And I considered it wonderful.  I would love to know what happened to it.  Nothing is left.  No one would dream this ever existed.

Well that led me to thinking...

This one is gone...it has been gone quite a while.  I know the road it was on, but not the exact spot.  The roof was getting bad, so maybe that is part of the reason it is gone.  It is on a road we travel several times a year...and all of a sudden, I realized there was no visible sign of it anywhere.  The old silo is gone, too.

This is another that just disappeared....I know right where it was, too.  It has been gone a good while.

I posted photos of this one HERE a while back, not realizing it was totally gone.  I decided to go see what it looked like now and couldn't find it.  I thought I must be crazy....thought I had just gotten the wrong road.

So I come home and got on google maps and started checking the roads in the general area and I am not seeing anything that even comes close.  Lo and behold, it happened to have the street view of the one road I thought it should be on.  And there it was....thankfully they still had old street views. 

But with me, I love old photos...so hopefully, someday someone will enjoy my little bits of history.

I will be linking to the Barn Collective later....

Drive-by shootings...

How I would love to have time and place to stop and take photos of this old beauty.  I don't even know if it is still standing...

I have photographed it a couple or three times as we passed, but have never gotten great photos.

Another drive by...the other two are fuzzy...

I may have posted a similar photo in the past few months...I am not sure.

I will be linking to The Barn Collective...