As a photographer you need a foreground to convey depth. In a previous post I used churches, in this I use barns. But apart from being foreground, the red barns and the white churches are also very quintessential New England, and when combined with the autumn colours we do feel we are in New England.
The barn above was really falling apart and I doubt that I will be able to come back and still capture it. It had once been painted red, but the only part that still retained some colour where the two barn doors hanging ajar. I had been raining as we were driving north towards Stowe, but it stopped before we passed this barn.
On small side roads south of Stowe I spotted two more barns worthy of our attention. The low-lying clouds covered part of the hills in the background and the contrast between the white/grey clouds and the foliage in all its colours made for nice compositions. Nearby where I took these images are the original Trapp Family Lodge (the real family that gave the inspiration for the musical). They settled here after fleeing Austria, and seeing the landscape I can understand it attracted with its similarities of Austrian valleys and mountains. Nearby are several ski resorts.
We move a little bit south but are still in Vermont. The house and barn below is just north of Woodstock and Barnard in Vermont and the following three images are near Peacham in north Vermont, from where I had this lovely sunset over the church in a previous post.
We stopped at North Pomfret and had a walk through the tiny hamlet. In a previous post I had shown the church, but equally beautiful was the little barn on the other side of the road and next to the barn was the post office established in 1826. The lovely sign on the building says: “North Pomfret / 05053 / U.S. Post Office / 1826”. Not even the satellite dishes and the post boxes on the gable of the house could destroy the charm of this post office nearly 200 years old.
