The sun is shining today and the bright, white snow sure makes the red barns stand out more. I had shingled the roof of milkhouse which is on the other side of the big barn twenty five years ago (when I was much younger!) but at least it wasn’t the big barn roof as that has a farther drop to the ground.

Red, White and Blue

As I continue the ‘red barn’ week, today picture is a lot of red barns and while not a rustic as an old red barn would be, it is a fitting picture for today as these red barns are on my parents farm and today is my dad’s birthday. When they purchased the farm (before I was born), all the barns and buildings were white but after a couple of tornadoes removed a couple of the barns, they were replaced with red ones. When it was only one red and the old white barn, it was easier to know where to go but now it is the middle barn or the back barn which works fine until my brother decides he needs another barn for his machinery. So would the middle barn become the ‘old’ middle barn and would the new one become the ‘way back’ barn? Maybe they should have different names but my brother is not quick in naming things and that is why one of his bulls were named Gertrude since my sister named it since my brother didn’t hurry up fast enough!

Lots of Red

Another barn for the ‘red barn’ week and it appears there are couple of rocks in the field that haven’t been picked yet but they are a little small so easy to be overlooked!

Red and Rocks

There might be some people with red, blood shot eyes this morning if they were ringing in the new year last night so I thought today’s picture should be a red one but since it is the new year, that it also had to be ‘new’ and ‘red’ so this new red barn can start off the red barn week.

Happy New Year Everyone!

New Red Barn