The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation recently posted a link on their Facebook feed to an article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about efforts to photograph old barns.  I realized that I've always taken the barns that are dotted around the countryside for granted -- not paying attention to their charm nor to the history they contain.
     So here is a picture of my barn.  I can remember, when I was a very little girl, going with my grandmother to the barn to collect eggs from the chickens housed there.
     I really don't remember much more.  The barn has been a presence at my grandparents' house all my life.  My main reaction has been fear of actually going in the barn because of the possibility of snakes.  So I have a barn cat named Bunny whose job is to kill the field mice so there won't be any food for the snakes and, therefore, no reason for them to hang around.  I only hope Bunny is doing his job.

National Barn Alliance website: http://barnalliance.org/