18 September

Video: Death Of A Barn, Cont.

by Jon Katz
Death Of A Barn

There is so much going on in my life right now that at the end of the day I sit back and think about what stands out, and what stood out today was the death of the old collapsed barn in our field. Barns are not just made of wood, I know. There is glass,tools, hundreds of nails, old and rotten hay, manure, barrens and bins. All of these things will have to be collected and sorted before animals can move around. This old barn was filled with stuff and the people from Common Sense Farm are passionate recyclers who are using or re-using every scrap of wood and metal.

Still, there is so much stuff in there, it will take days to clear it out and remove it. The sight of the Common  Sense workers hauling wood to the fire seemed emotional to me, dramatic and my big lens – the 400 mm  Canon telephone – helped me capture what I felt. I felt the death of a barn, already dead, really, and long useless and forgotten. Still…

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