the old barn

Here is a building from the past; a ghost really, since it no longer stands. It is the old barn that was once attached to the house and had to be torn down. It dared to fall down otherwise. I wonder what it looked like inside and the crew of people who built it. People don't build like this anymore. The wood was likely milled right here in Maine and some of it could have come right off the property. There used to be a long stone wall leading away from the house. That was all that remained of the old barn back in the early 1980s. Old tools, rusty nails, bits of glass and other odds and ends would turn up in the grass every now and then in the small field next to that stone wall. It only takes a little imagination to wonder what else is buried by the red house.