Not much to write about today … so I’ll share a few images with you.
I drive a rear-wheel drive sports coupe with summer tires. Here it is ass-deep in a snowbank. Needless to say, I’m doing my best to put as few miles on it as possible - largely because it has as much traction as an ice cube in a frying pan, and also because they gratuitously dump salt on the roads here. The same salt that likes to eat the paint and sheet metal that comprises the bodywork of most cars.
Old barns are places I spent a lot of time in as a youngin’. This is one of my favorite old barns in the area; a decrepit old thing full of ancient wonders. I recall wandering through this particular barn on many occasions - wondering mostly why someone would let it get so run down in the first place. I was particularly awestruck by the beams that comprised the main structure; large wooden planks that had to be a square foot in cross-section. They must have weighed hundreds - perhaps thousands - of pounds each.
This old thresher deserved to be photographed, just because. I’m sure it still gets used on a yearly basis; the farmer had parked it with pride by the side of the road, and the various grease fittings looked like they had been filled only yesterday. There’s something wonderfully reflective about old farm equipment, and I’m glad farmers don’t feel the urge to replace some of these older machines with newer, shinier tools (even though I’m positive the newer, shinier ones are also far less prone to kill you in a New York minute, if you happen to slip or put your finger in the wrong place at the wrong time).
And lastly, the Lucy Maud Montgomery house, only about five kilometres from my parents’ farm. This is the house (as the plaque notes) where she wrote eleven of her novels, including “Anne of the Island” and “Anne’s House of Dreams”. I was never actually a fan of her work; it was too “chick-lit” for my tastes. But she’s still a venerated Canadian authoress and deserves to be mentioned here (because all important Canadians get mentioned here, right?)
