Rural Thursday: Down a Country Road

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Of Textures, Barns, & Lilacs

Today is Tuesday and it's time to join the talents of other photographers at Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday, but I'm also joining the folks at Bluff Area Daily for Barn Charm.  Let's start with Texture Tuesday.  I so love textures of all kinds, the grungy, elegant, artistic, and of course vintage. I've always been drawn to the old and used, gently and hard.  It's the stories that I concoct about inanimate and animate objects that makes all those antique, vintage, retro and yesterday's stuff so appealing to me.  Whether it's a barn or a an old fame displaying lilacs, I'm intrigued and content.

Have you been fortunate enough to smell the heady fragrance of lilacs on spring breezes yet?  I'm blessed with an old lilac just out my window.  I can sit at the computer working and enjoy the elegant blossoms in every 'scents' of the word. (Bad pun intended)  How could my subject not be the lovely lilac this week?

 

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I'm linking up with Barn Charm on Bluff Area Daily  More barn beauty can be found at...





Want to read Tim Bowling's entire poem, Old Barns?  You can find it here.

Into the Country

On Sunday, my brother and his wife accompanied me on a country photoshoot.  We traversed the backroads in search of Fuji foto ops.  I vowed a couple years ago that I would seek the beauty to be found in rural northwest Ohio and the search continues.  Come along with me.  Let me show you my corner of the world...

"Can you imagine an America without a barn on the landscape? Is that the America we want?"

~ Rod Scott

From B & J's back yard I could see this old, tumbling down barn, so I zoomed in and snapped a shot.

This old barn sits within a small country park called...Opdycke Park.

We journeyed down lettered and numbered side roads. Don't you agree...

"Horses make a landscape look beautiful."

~ Alice Walker

An old country school sits on the corner across from Opdycke park...

"School days, school days, dear old golden rule days

Readin' and writin' and 'rithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick." 

~ Lyrics to School Days by Will D. Cobb, 1907 

What's a trip to the country without stopping at a farmhouse?

My nephew's daughter looks absolutely angelic holding one of the three kids born three weeks ago.

A race to the top...

"O for a horse with wings"

~ William Shakespeare

"I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand."

~ Leonardo Da Vinci 

In case you're wondering...Yes I tweaked every photo and some I added a texture or two.  I'm still experimenting, playing with, and vastly intrigued by the effects created by textures.

Happy Spring!