The days are getting shorter, the leaves are falling fast - that means the best time of year is coming for barn photography!
It may sound crazy but once those beautiful red and orange leaves are down, we get a better view of the barns themselves, and the low sun angles are super for good pictures.
Here's a connected barn complex in Woodbury that is only revealed when the leaves are off.
At this bank barn in Beacon Falls, the horses enjoy the warmth of the sun - they probably don't care about the dramatic backdrop!
In case you're getting tired of barn red, take a look at this rare octagonal barn on the Woodbury-Southbury town line - a treat for the winter tourist.
If you like taking pictures, we're planning our next workshop for volunteers - it's a chance to join the crew of barn surveyors. The shoreline towns from Groton to Old Lyme are our target audience but all are welcome.Learn about the history of Connecticut barns (with lots of pictures) and how you as a volunteer can help find and document barns throughout the state. It's on November 19, 6 pm at the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library. Call Historic Barns at 203.562.6312 for more details.
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My family's small farm in central CT had two old barns on it. The farm is no longer in possession of my family, as we moved to northern MA, but I'm sure the barns are still there. One barn had been sited on Main Street, and we moved it to the farm in the 1970s with a traditional barn raising.
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