I have a friend who loves pictures of old barns. (It’s Paula. Hi Paula! She doesn’t have a blog, but this is a test to see if she’s reading.) Whenever I see one I take a picture for her.

How many people do you think still build barns like this anymore? Wood that ages to a beautiful color, a tin roof that rusts to a deep red, doors that sag on creaky hinges.

There are a few scattered throughout our small town and this one is in my aunt’s yard. One afternoon I went and borrowed her barn for a few pictures. Are you lucky enough to have one on your property?

If you are you might be able to get some rustic, fun pictures like this:

(There’s something that bugs me in every photograph I take of my kids and in this one it is the Converse tennis shoes-clown shoes. I looked and looked for his boots that day and couldn’t find them. The bright red tennis shoe looks so out of place to me.)