What's A Nice Girl Like Me . . .

. . . doing in a place like this?

Do things look spookier in black and white?

Let's try this same old barn in color:

Less spooky, but . . . still not someplace I'd be brave enough to wander into.

On Sunday, I convinced my husband Howard that we should tootle

along the back roads of western New Jersey until we found a great big

barn filled with amazing old stuff that we could not live without.

Luckily, this was not the barn I was looking for.

This was that barn:

Also old, but huge, and packed with stuff.

Every inch of it.

Looking at these shots that I grabbed in my hasty tour, as I fought off 

claustrophobia, it occurs to me that the barn looks pretty good inside.

In the pictures.

But up close and personal . . . it was overwhelming.  There were places I didn't take pictures

because I didn't have the room to move my arm enough to bring my camera out of my coat pocket.

Two huge floors of, well, all sorts of things from sinks to doors to furniture to restaurant china,

to old lamps, moldy old books, and things that I could not identify.  Covering all was thick dust.

In the end, we didn't find anything that we couldn't live without, so we left

and retraced our steps back to the land of strip malls and traffic.

But we did see a part of our state that we've barely explored.

It's not all oil tanks on the New Jersey Turnpike, our state.

And that barn at the beginning of this post?  It was on the same property as the big barn.

A side view:

Can you tell I am fascinated by this old barn?  I love it's natural air conditioning.  How green!

Places like this make me wish I could paint.

(Pictures, I mean, not walls or furniture.  That I can do!)

We had parked next to another outbuilding.

I swear, these old places defy gravity.

On Mondays, I recommend visiting Mary at her beautiful Little Red House blog, for Mosaic Monday.

She's another Jersey girl who often captures the beauty

of The Garden State in her images.

And she does it way better than I do! 

Click here for some lovely browsing.

And at Bluff Area Daily Blog, it is time for Barn Charm, a weekly blog party.

Click here to go there!  

See you tomorrow! -- Cass

Categories: antiques sales , new jersey barns