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Barns & Buildings
Ah, the ruins or Rome.. the graceful proportions of the Acropolis. The elegant symmetry of classic architecture... You won't find any of that in this Picture Gallery. Barns and other interesting structures that I have found on my drives around the ozarks and across the country.

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The Old Homestead

The Old Homestead
   
A house. Abandoned how long ago, no one knows. It stands vacant as the years slowly seep into its rafters.
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Michigan House

   
Michigan House
If you're late I'll leave a light on. you can imagine a ghostly light glowing from an upper window of this old home. But the lines are straigh. a fresh coat of paint and a few new appliances and it will...
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Stoney Barn

Stoney Barn
   
A Barn, a motorhome, an entire lifestile under endless michigan skies.
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Cow Barn

   
Cow Barn
I was driving along in upper Michigan. Just wanderind around, I didn't really know exactly where I was at the time. I rounded the bend and came upon the Barn of the Green Cow. Perhaps it was the Green...
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Phillipsburg Store

Phillipsburg, MO
   
Out by the train tracks nobody seems to be wanting to do any business. at least not in this abandoned storefront. The old Route 66 used to run through, P{hillipsburg Missouri. It still does but there...
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With a Little Bit o

   
Luck, NC
When you are driving north on Highway 209 in North Carolina, If you want to find Trust you have to first come into Luck. Luck, NC isn't even a crossroad. It isn't what it was and what remains is an adorable...
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Arched Shed

arched shed in arkansas
   
I was Driving through the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas when I came upon this arched shed. It was mid-May and the corn in the field was only a few feet tall in the middle. I wonder if the arch is a product...
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Missouri Windmill

   
missouri windmill
in the low, rolling hils that are Northern Missouri, this windmill stands sentinal over an empty yard
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Iowa Barn

Iowa Barn
   
It was a quiet morning. The only sound was the rush of the air and the field crickets around me. When I stopped to take this picture no other vehicle passed for the ten or fifteen minutes I was fooling...
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Havanah Arkansas

   
The corner store in Havana, Arkansas
The corner store in Havana, Arkansas doesn't seem to be doing much business these days. the painted advertisements on the walls have faded, and the doors are shuttered. If fact the whole town seemed to...
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Missouri Shack

an old shack in missouri
   
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Corrugated building in Stuttgard

   
Corrugated tin building
A corrugated tin building with hopper in Stuttgart Arkansas. Stuttgart Arkansas is the Rice Capital of the World
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Tankhouse

tankhouse
   
This is a tankhouse outside of Castroville, California. There were workers harvesting lettuce in a field nearby on that day. Salad to the horizon.
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Giant Artichoke

   
Again we are in Castroville California, artichoke capital of the world. Why these folk are so darn crazy about their artichokes that they have an 18' artichoke as the mascot to this restauraunt where you...
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Old farm building with tar paper brick

outbuilding
   
Sometimes the wrapping is better than the present inside. Who knows what might be found if that door were pushed to the side. Perhaps it hides an ancient Bentley, purchased by an eccentric old farmer and...
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Weathered Fence Post

   
Fence-Post
In its charity, this fence post has been a rest stop for birds, a canvas for lichens and a trellis for climbing vines. Perhaps it has contained a cow or two as well. For however many years it has been...
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Tin Shed

Tin-Shed
   
An old tin shed shows its picturesque self on one of the backroads of the Missouri Ozarks. The bright two-tone orange door with the Phillips route 66 sign on it gave it a personality all of it's own. it...
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Tanks & Tower

   
Tanks--Tower
Huge fuel tanks provide background for a graveyard of old gas pumps. The town water tower watches over beneath a darkening sky.
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Barn on a Hillside

Barn-on-a-Hillside
   
In the rolling hills of the Ozarks there isn't always a flat place to build your barn. This can be an advantage, giving one easier access to the upper floors. Of course any barn is only as good as its...
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Shed with basket ball hoop

   
Shed-with-basket-ball-hoop
It must have been difficult deciding whether the galvanized tin should go on the side of the building or the roof. Clearly, the side won out and now the basketball rebounds with a clatter. Imagine people...
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Old Town Barn

Old-Town-Barn
   
Everything changes. Villiages grow into towns. Towns grow into cities. Amid all of this change and growth there are pockets of stillness. Places preserved, for the moment, from the busy rush of 21st-century...
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picture of a run down shed

   
A-run-down-shed
As you crest Copening Hill in the Missouri Ozarks, you will flash by a tiny church. If you are behind one of the locals who's pickup truck grinds down into first gear to make it up the hill, the flashing...
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Shed Wall

Shed-Wall
   
It was early in October. Turning colors beneath an overcast sky. Along my way stood this shed. In past days someone had paid attention to it. When working with the image I discovered the shed had Christmas...
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Barn Tractor

   
Barn-Tractor
A tin roof, a bare wall and a place to park the tractor. Sometimes that is all you need for a happy outlook on life. Maybe I am confusing that with a look out the window. I like the modifications this...
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Charleston Shack

Charleston shack
   
The deep awning on the front of this old building makes me think it once was a gas station. It can be found on an old feeder highway north of Charleston, South Carolina. Hidden in the trees behind the...
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Milking shed

   
Milking-shed
They call these milking sheds, though I don't think much milking goes on in them. You can find them on small to tiny farm operations that have a few head of milk cows or at one time had. Some of the ones...
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Indiana Grainary

Indiana Grainary
   
I'm not an old farm-boy. I have uncles that are old farm-boys and perhaps they would know what this building is right-off. I am guessing, based on the chutes at the top, it was used as a grainary back...
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Carolina Farm

   
Carolina Farm
They are growing soybeans here now but "back in the day" this-a-here plot of land was growin' tobaccy the two tall buildings are classic 'baccy shacks.
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