The old barn is finally coming down, two years after it collapsed under heavy snows like so many beautiful old barns around here. It was mostly filled with junk – mattresses, old sinks, tools, and it is being dismantled unceremoniously, without too much thought given to its past. I am sorry to see it go, glad to see it go. Barns rarely seem to get the respect they deserve, it is their particular fate and destiny. In a few days it will be gone.