Five minutes, maybe less - that's all I had to approach and circle around an old barn in Eastern NC

[Mira]

Got to drive across a good third of NC today, and back, and time was of the essence.

Though there were many tempting sites here is the one where I took the only photos of the day in no time flat.
I was too timid to explore the inside, for fear of breaking a leg, I have been know to get hurt.

Hope you like them.

[alfredo]

1. The color in the fourth one knocks me out.

[Mira]

2. Thanks Alfredo, I assume that's in a good way, so I'll give you one more

[alfredo]

4. Now I want to see the inside of the barn. You have to go back!

[Mira]

6. Just for you -here it is. The blown out light at the window

made this photo not worth showing. I could never find that barn again, we were lost in the Hinterlands at the time we happened on it. I wish I had had more time then I would have gone inside and braved the rickety floors.

[alfredo]

8. Thanks. I like the Blown out window. Too bad the floor were too rickety

For safe exploration. I can see so many opportunities in there. The wall on the right, and the light in the room to the left would have been fun.

[Celebration]

3. first, glad you are safe and sound

Second, love the pictures. Rural America at its most colorful..............what a great eye!

[alfredo]

5. Mira has inspired me to leave the confines of my city and

get back to the real.

[Celebration]

7. I need to get back to those abandoned houses by the Tennessee River

I've photographed them before, but the light and vines are probably a lot different now.

However, most of the rundown places up there are old mobile homes, not too scenic. Most of the random scenes I have from up there were for the contest "Red". Then I used an urban scene in the contest.

[alfredo]

9. The mobile homes may have had there own stories to tell.

[NV Whino]

10. What a find!

A clapboard barn covered with sheet metal and lath and plaster inside. I truly have never seen such a phenomenon.

Love the fourth photo and the one with the vine in the window in another post.

[postatomic]

11. There are 101 Different Ways a Tripod can be used

I've used 47 of the 101. One is to test doors and flooring before you enter an unstable building. I have a real passion for rural areas. I have lots of barn photos. You found a goodie here. It must rain (snow?) quite often there. I've never been to your part of the country. I wouldn't expect to see sheet metal over wood there.

Thanks for taking a few mintues to stop. Enjoyed your photos.

[alfredo]

12. Look for nails in the floor. Nails = girders below.

Learned that from my mail carrier days.

You can usually tell by barns where you are in America. Each region had its own style of barn suited to crops and climate.

That barn is probably what they call a crib barn. Most likely that was a hayloft on the second floor. Such barns are divided into several "cribs", such as a hayloft, and a corn crib, though they were quite often separate from the main barn due to their need for good air circulation for drying. Most likely this barn was not used for tobacco, unless the crib to the left had exposed beams for hanging and drying. Like corn, tobacco needs air circulation.



In my region we have tobacco, horse, and a few surviving hemp barns.

Here's corn cribs. Note the measures they took to keep mice and rats out.



We had a crib barn on our land. We used the cribs on either side for our laying hens. The central crib was for tools. The cribs were much larger than the example above.

[postatomic]

13. And I now know something I didn't before

I really should read up on barns so I have a better knowledge of the different types. It's difficult enough trying to learn about the different Farm House architectures. Wish I had the time and money to go cross country exploring the various rural areas. Like you said, it varies. I hadn't even considered tobacco as something kept in barns.

Corn Cribs I know. But nothing like the illustrations you have there.

[alfredo]

14. I remember seeing the New England style corn cribs here

in Kentucky.

Tobacco barn. There are tall narrow doors that can be opened and closed to regulate moisture.



You can see two of the doors open in this fixer-upper.