An interesting aspect of barns is what they say about the people who built them.  Barns are structures that are adapted to the work of their owner on the land on which they are built.  How that person chooses to work the land and what he or she wishes to produce from it determines the size, shape, color and style of the barn.
                The handsome, carefully maintained structure surrounded by flowers and greenery in “Mosvold’s Barn” reflects the hardworking family that owned it. I can imagine that the owner of “Red Barn” built his barn solely for utility, yet that barn has now become a part of the landscape, melding into the field whose produce it stores and distinguished only by its red color.
                 “Flower Trail” and “Returning” tell stories of life gone by, of barns whose builders died many years ago. Why the barns were abandoned, I don’t know — perhaps the builder’s farm failed; maybe his children chose to leave farm life when they were grown. The paint has faded and wildflowers have grown where a road once was, but the abandoned barn still stands, a lonely testimony to the labor and dreams of someone long ago.
                  Perhaps you will see a new story in these paintings of barns.