Winter Barns

Remember that bright sunny winter day nearly a week ago?  I've already shared several pictures from that day of Georgian Bay and frosty trees, but I also captured a few barns as I drove between here and Thornbury.  Always looking for more blog photos....

This farm no longer has a house, but is rented by the farmer across the road.  But the barn is still in use; he keeps cattle there.  I've looked for a good viewpoint, and finally found this winter gap between the trees, and on a sunny day too.

I've posted pictures of this one before, but from quite a different angle.  Still quite an active farm, cash crops I think.  I'm finding that I like these more distant views of barns which show the landscape, as well as the close-ups.

This is further north on the road to Meaford,  I like the roofline of tis one.

As I drive around in the corners that have better farmland, I often find two or three farms showing up at once across the landscape.

All the above barns are in active use and being well maintained, but this one obviously isn't.  I don't think it has long to last!

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Thanks for all your comments on yesterday's 1000th post!  Tonight we're in the middle of a winter storm.  The temperature started to rise Friday, a lot of our little bit of snow melted, and last night it rained heavily overnight.  We woke to rain, but as we drove home from church, it transformed into snow as the cold front moved through, light at first, then heavy and swirling around in the wind.  We've actually only had a little snow (though that's much better than rain!), but now northwest squalls are developing off Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, and overnight we've got 10-20 cm. in the forecast.  Along with temperatures well below freezing and more snowflurries for the week, maybe we're finally going to get real winter.

Almost forgot, I failed to make my hour/day walking this week.  Only 6.5 hours, what with the rain and the snowstorm today.

Linking to;

The Barn Collective