Outdoor Wednesday – Barns along my daily walk

The village of Stowe, Vermont dates back to the mid-1700s. It is of note for me as a resident that not as much as I would prefer has changed since then. However, it does provide great blogging material. Today I am showing SOME of the barns we pass on our daily walk. These were yesterday as we walked a mile out and then back. No driving needed for barn sightings here.

Many of the homes on Main Street stretch to the back of the lot with attached barns and have been converted. Sometimes it is like looking for “hidden Mickeys”.

This is the 1860 House and has converted “condos” that are just as often sold for business purposes as for apartments.

The back of this one has a great example of a “Vermont” window. We pass it again on the front.

The attached house front actually sits on the sidewalk of Main Street.

This is my favorite village property with a barn so far. I love the old stone wall that encloses the back yard. Again, the front of the house sits on Main Street and often I do not even see the barns in the rear.

  
I did use a telephoto lens for this one and some of the following more traditional barns.

It almost looks like fall, doesn’t it? I guess the trees in the distance still haven’t fully “greened” up yet this year.

  
This one looks like a working farm.

Stowe residents love their barns so much, they built The Swimming Hole to look like one. If we had normal businesses here, this would be analogous to  a local YMCA. Here is where we turn around, leave the path and walk back through the village.

There is a question on whether this Chinese Food restaurant is in a converted barn. The side view says, “yes”.

Next we pass a series of businesses in converted barns or with barns attached.

The front of this house is one of my favorites on Main Street. This attached barn holds the dentist’s office.

 

      

 

 

Here the barn is so close to the sidewalk, it was difficult to get the picture. You can just make out the attached house in the background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As we emerge from the covered wooden walkway, the blacksmith shop is more appropriately housed in a barn.

At this point, I am a bit shaky from my “unstable” special walking shoes and trying to keep up with my husband over the course of 2 miles. It appears the camera had enough of barns, too. The battery was just about done.

Visit Susan at A Southern Daydreamer for more outdoor posts. And, finally, a shout out to a barn lover over at Keep’n the Sunnyside.

(My thank you to readers is posted here.)