I took my camera along as I ran errands on Monday. I know it’s only temporary but everything looked fresh and different with a layer of snow.
I’m partial to the rural landscape in any weather. I especially like the look of a barn in snow.
Category: Barns
Lost cause
This is one of those swaybacked barns that’s slowly surrendering to age and the elements, sadly past redemption.
Hidden barn
It’s easy to miss this barn. It’s nestled on a rise behind a quilt store and a few eateries. But it’s still a pleasant surprise.
This will do
I wanted to find a healthy barn after the decay of yesterday’s. This one volunteered. It may not be functioning as a farm building but it’s got life and purpose. Though we’ve got a fine shop building I rarely fail to have barn envy when I see a massive working space like this. Oh, the things we could do!
Remembering a barn
When I moved to Sequim in 2010 you could see this barn from Highway 101, west of River Road. It had a swaybacked roof but the cupola was still upright. The image above is from September 2012 as the roof caved deeper and the cupola sank into its recesses.
I visited it a month later here and here as it was clear that time was not kind to this old barn. By December 2012 here it was not looking good. By July 2014 I declared it dead here.
I revisited it recently to see how it was doing. There’s not much standing and there’s little enough that it’s hard to see through tall weeds from my original vantage point.
It’s sad to see it gone.
Scale
Here in the western U.S. the eastern sides of our mountains are dry. Stripped of wetter forest lands they can offer a longer view and different perspective.
See that tiny white dot at the bottom of this shot? It’s a barn though it almost looks like a rock that’s tumbled down the mountainside. Humans don’t look quite so big and important at this scale.
Room for lavender
This is the back of one of the barns of a local lavender growing operation. It was previously called Angel Farm. Now it’s B & B Family Farm. The fields, which you cannot see here, have been rejuvenated and it’s again on the annual lavender circuit. I enhanced this grey day look a bit with Photoshop.