There is an aura of stoic sagacity around old barns. As I mentioned in my previous post, many family farms in my area are no longer operating and their weathered outbuildings are left to decline. These two are still standing, showing their age with grace and beauty. Eventually in time they will succumb to gravity, probably after a heavy winter snowstorm.
Weathered boards, glass-less windows.
Old slate roof well-crafted long ago, walls sag under its weight, pockets of sky, vines clamber through cracks. She is an elderly person leaning on a rickety fence.
Eliza Waters 
I think they are beautiful!! 🙂 But what does sagacity mean?
Thank you, Line. According to Google, sagacity means klokskap.
Oh, wow ! Thank you so much!! 🙂 Now, you taught me a new word! 🙂
You’ve done it again with these wonderful photographs! You should do a book…..
Thanks, maybe someday! xo
Wisdom, insight
🙂 xo
Thank you Eliza for these beautiful pictures. They remind me of my childhood. I wondered why people didn’t tear them down. Now I am afraid they will disappear.
It costs time and money to tear them down, so they are left to fall on their own. Many of them are disappearing, but there are some new ones. Did you see my post about the barn-raising? http://wp.me/p3O3z4-lw That was a happy day!
Oh I loved that.
🙂
I love old barns! It makes me happy just looking at your pictures. And I admire your description of the barn as an elderly person leaning… I have a not-so-secret wish to someday live in a barn. I visited an antiques dealer (prints & engravings) in Southern California who has her workshop & sales space in a barn. I was so envious. And then there’s the beautiful round barn at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. (I did a post on that one). I would live there in a minute. Sigh…
If you did and someone yelled at you for leaving the door open, “What do you think, you live in a barn?” you could say, “Yes!” 😉
Too bad you don’t want to live here, there are so many barns that would love to be rescued.
Actually, there are carpenters that specialize in tearing down old barns and reconstructing them for similar purposes or as houses. Kind of expensive in terms of labor, however, but it’s the only way to get authentic weathered wood paneling. 🙂
I am so tempted. If I only lived there 6 months a year, it could work!
I’ll start looking for one for you! 🙂
“There is an aura of stoic sagacity around old barns.” where did you come up with that from? I love that line!
Source, of course! 😉 Thanks, Kim.
I too find old barns to be handsome reminders of a productive past and I always feel sad to see them slowly crumbling. Your photos show their strengths and weaknesses – all that and more. And at least in such photos we can preserve them.
Thanks, Dor. Your last comment is so true. From now on I think I will make a point of documenting the ones I see.
Lovely buildings and photographs.
Thanks!
beautiful old buildings:-)
and lovely pictures of them:-)
Thanks, Robbie!
There is something in your writing and in your pictures… Something so peaceful, almost healing, almost magical. Thank you, Eliza Waters. 🙂
Thank you so much. That’s a jackpot compliment! 🙂
Such gorgeous old barns!
Thank you, Fi. The texture and color of weathered wood is so beautiful to me.
I love old barns! Great series of photos, Eliza….
Thanks! There is something about barns that draws many of us in. Warmth, protection from the elements, abundant harvests perhaps? It must be rooted in our consciousness.
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I love barns. These are beautiful. Your images do them justice. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thanks so much, Sharon, you are most kind! 🙂