I love road trips in southern Ohio.
I enjoy looking at the barns. In parts of south central ohio, near the Ohio river, there are a lot of winding roads, surrounded by woods, and many old tobacco barns. The barns are generally very close to the road, signs of a very busy crop in the past.
There are also the quilt barns, very much present in Adams County, Ohio, and in our area as well. The barn quilt paintings began as a way of welcoming tourists, but now are popular in many areas of the United States.
I also love the beautiful barns in our state that were painted to reflect the Ohio bicentennial in 2003.
I especially love the delapidated older barns. It is shame to see them abandoned. I cannot help but imagine what the barns were used for when they were first built, especially the barns with a hay loft at the 3rd level. Perhaps a dairy barn?
Our modern metal pole barns will never become as weather-beaten as the 100-year old barns did, but they lack in abiance and character.
Are you a barn watcher too? I have been as far back as I can remember. Road trips etched in my mind as a child, almost as if the barns were the road markers. Beautiful.
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Oh yes, me, too! And as each one is torn down, a piece of me is wrenched away!!
Diane, what is it about barns, really? I have no idea.
I am also fascinated by the barns in Europe, with stone walls, very sturdy. With the farm family living on the upper floor, livestock housed below, a natural heat source in the colder months. Interesting.
We don’t head to Southern Ohio very often though but that is where my sister & brother-in-law live in a little town called The Plains, Ohio which is right outside of Athens, Ohio which he is attending Ohio University right now as a D.O. (Osteopath). But they’ll be moving next Saturday to the Cuayoga Falls, Ohio area to begin his rotations at hospitals and my sister will continue working as a Pharmacist Tech. at Wal-Greens but she is hoping to get into Pharmacy School as well.
I love looking at all different barns, etc. too. We have a couple metal pole barns too.
~*~Amy~*~
Absolutely!
I have always loved barns and old buildings of any kind.
I wonder who it belongs to, what is it used for, when was it built…..
One day I’ll have a barn of my own. The sooner the better!!!
There you are!!!