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[sparker1]

Must be a quilter, or maybe communicating something to aliens?

They are, in fact, called "barn quilts", but it doesn't mean the owner is a quilter. Most barns within that area have "barn quilts" and there are tours available to see the best of them. Aliens aren't involved.

 

[Cliff Hilbert]

Must be a quilter, or maybe communicating something to aliens?

Yep, that was Stan's (Sparker) message to the aliens he saw when he visited there.

 

[sparker1]

Wisconsin. Another barn with "quilt sign".

 

[Cliff Hilbert]

Wisconsin. Another barn with "quilt sign".
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It's okay, Stan, we know you're communicating with aliens with those signs.

 

[DavidWatts]

Perhaps we need a Quilt Thread where sometimes a quilt would depict a barn?

 

[Gene Spearman]

Kentucky
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Great shot!

 

[Gene Spearman]

At a friend's house. The damaged front was totally replaced with the transparent material.

 

[Capn Jack]

Must be a quilter, or maybe communicating something to aliens?

They are, in fact, called "barn quilts", but it doesn't mean the owner is a quilter. Most barns within that area have "barn quilts" and there are tours available to see the best of them. Aliens aren't involved.

I remember those being called "hex signs" in Southeast Pennsylvania.

 

[sparker1]

I remember those being called "hex signs" in Southeast Pennsylvania.

That's right. The Pennsylvania Dutch use that terminology, and I think their signs have a significant meaning to them. The folks in Wisconsin just make signs that look like quilt patterns, no special meaning.

 

[sparker1]

At a friend's house. The damaged front was totally replaced with the transparent material.View attachment 86003

It is, after all, just a barn.

 

[sparker1]

Washington

 

[DavidWatts]

It’s still there? Looked like it was about fall over years ago.

Washington

We were debating (as a group of 12) whether or not to drive out to that grain storage whatever-it-was at midnight and do our Milky Way shots with that in the near foreground. We didn't because it was too far from where we were staying and we also had a 4am shoot the next morning. Also, because it is private land, we didn't want to trespass...

 

[DavidWatts]

... so instead, we ventured back out at midnight anyway, a little closer to our hotel, like 20 miles, and set up on a railroad track which we were assured was inactive, and shot the MW and this little barn (keeping it thread-worthy) as an anchor. Got back at 2am, then went back out at 4am to the next barn and field shoot. Sleep was optional impossible.

Canon 5D3 • Canon 16-35 L • other EXIF info was missing • Larger Version in Gallery​

 

[sparker1]

Maryland

 

[DavidWatts]

^ My first thought was Wisconsin until I read Maryland. That's real farm country there.

 

[sparker1]

Maryland

 

[Cliff Hilbert]

Maryland
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That looks like something I would build.............lopsided.

 

[DavidWatts]

That looks like something I would build.............lopsided.

Could be part perspective too, but it is falling over. And that makes it great for this thread!

 

[sparker1]

Maryland

 

[sparker1]

Utah