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31-MAR-2011 Shirley Haden

5th (tie) - Have You Ever Been in a Barn-Shirley
by Shirley Haden

There is something amazing about a barn. A barn was the playground of my youth. The smell of grain and straw bales, a fragrance as memorable as fresh baked bread or as distinct as a skunk; a smell all of it's own.

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ArtP13-Apr-2011 01:34
I picture dust drifting through shafts of sunlight which found it's way between boards of aging siding.
Olympus DSLR Challenge04-Apr-2011 17:42
Great atmosphere indeed !
No barns in my youth, since I grew in the fishermen's neighborhood of a coastal town. My "barns" were abandoned old boats, warehouses with webs, buoys and other stuff for fishing... so, also I have some places, things and smells that are tightly related to my childhood.
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Shirley Haden04-Apr-2011 04:17
Brenda me too! I'm thinking it would be a great fun time! I told Marv, there we were, we could have driven up the long dirt drive to the house that was sitting back on the left side on this shot. I could have asked permission to photograph inside the barn. Drat! It was a cloudy day, I would prefer going in with the sun beams for light. I think you and I could have such fun together Brenda, I do wish you were close by.
Guest 04-Apr-2011 01:54
Oh Shirley, you entered your wonderful barn!! It's so massive and has endured generations of farmers. It must have been bright red at one time. I'd love to go in and poke around, look at the thick beams and rafters, maybe clamber into the lost and dangle my legs.

I still go into barns but this is a classic.
Shirley Haden02-Apr-2011 06:38
Brent you are so right! I thought of that too, those upper windows/doors letting sun flood in like a spot light, making every little spec show up. Oh I wish I could just live in a barn!

Brad, in NW Minnesota it is the sugar beet plants that are so so stinky you'd rather stick your head in an outhouse in August! That was their favorite saying too. LOL Sometimes I wish they were all broke!
Shirley Haden02-Apr-2011 04:29
Brent you are so right! I thought of that too, those upper windows/doors letting sun flood in like a spot light, making every little spec show up. Oh I wish I could just live in a barn!

Brad, in NW Minnesota it is the sugar beet plants that are so so stinky you'd rather stick your head in an outhouse in August! That was their favorite saying too. LOL Sometimes I wish they were all broke!
Brad 01-Apr-2011 21:39
Having grown up in a town of 15,000 in central Indiana, I have seen my share of barns, "MAIL POUCH TOBACCO" on the sides of some of them. My uncle's barn had cattle down below (where they stayed at night) and a hay loft up above. The smell below was something, not so great, my uncle told me that "It smells like money" (I thought that was odd and smelled the few coins I had),, he meant the cattle were worth money, it took me a while to get it
Olympus DSLR Challenge01-Apr-2011 19:18
I can see the dust motes floating on the sunbeams after an afternoon swinging down the ropes.

brent
caimi 01-Apr-2011 10:49
I love barns too. The atmosphere is a mixture of hay and manure and years and years of dust. great picture.