Growing Old

365 Writing Prompt

erika sauter
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read
Photo Credit: Me

The more I age the more I feel like this barn looks. Old and worn but still beautiful in it’s ways.

I drove the road past Monsanto until it turned into gravel, lined with cemeteries and a dead end that opened into a field where this barn is. This old barn. How long as it been here? What happened to the owners who once worked this land?

I believe the brick dates the barn to the early 1900s, the same as the houses in town are dated. I parked my truck and got out to take this picture. The sun’s warmth contrasted against the chilled breeze.

I sat with at the barn for a while before going home that day. Maybe the barn was lonely, I thought. Or, maybe I was.

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Editorial Reporter@ Hometown Current Newspaper. Iowa County, Iowa. Library patron, cat enthusiast & tree hugger. I write stories, snap photographs and farm.

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