Life can be rough. So can trees, rocks and buildings.
The barn was built in 1720 and it’s in almost perfect shape after a restoration about 25 years ago.
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ROUGH AND TUMBLE
SMOOTH AND SOMETIMES SHINY 
TWO BY TWO 
WE LIVE BY TOOLS & BATTERIES. LITERALLY. 
WINTER AND WATER 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
I love your cactus :D Great roughnes here 😀
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Thanks!! Serious prickliness. My Arizona friend had it growing in his garden. He didn’t know what it’s called, but there were two of them, both pink. If you happen to know what they are, please let me know? BIG thorns, but the color is enchanting.
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It is a Santa rita prickly pear.
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THANK YOU!!
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I love to see historic buildings sympathetically restored so that we can really get a feel of how they looked and felt in their time. This barn is a proper time capsule.
A great collection of pictures, Marilyn. The last one is particularly striking, the colours, light and clarity are outstanding. Absolutely beautiful. 🙂
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That barn was one of the first local building I photographed when we moved here. The house and barn both had dates on them. Both early 1700s. I think it might have been the original farm on which our house — and many others — now live. They have put together a library in our new “church museum” in town. I need to found out how I can go look at it. They don’t leave it where anyone can get to it. The pictures go back as long as there have been photographs. It’s amazing how much of the old Uxbridge still lives in the new Uxbridge.
Unimportant though this town is today, it was a lot more important a few hundred years ago, probably because of its location in a watershed and later, the center of our industrial revolution — 100 years after England had industrialized — and it was an English immigrant who built our first mill on the Blackstone River, not far from here. Today we have a few mills. A few converted into senior living facilities — and they are really lovely apartment. Some house shops for carpenters and artists.
Then, there are museums. One was a barn built before the country was a country, the 1600s. Another was a church and was still a church when we moved here. Others were were mills.
We lost our big mill to fire about 15 years ago. The wood ones often go up in flames. It’s not just the wood because other wood structures, equally old, are fine. The firefighters think it was the resin and chemicals used in the mills which seeped into the wood and made it more flammable than regular wood. Most of what remains standing are stone. The fire at Bernat Mills lasted more than a month. It involved every professional and volunteer firefighter in most of Massachusetts. It smoldered for weeks. Even after the big flames were gone, they had to watch it until they were sure every ember was out. We have a small piece of it — a brick entryway and a tall stone chimney.
There is a lot of history in this valley. I write about it though I don’t know how many people are interested. I’m interested. Maybe I’ll post it again. I rewrite it each time and when I have new pictures, I remove old ones and add new ones.
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I’m interested too! 🙂 It’s quite a significant valley you live in, isn’t it? Sounds as though the museum’s library would be a great source for you with a wealth of information and images. It’s good to learn about the history of where we live, it gives a lot more meaning to our understanding of the place and where we fit into it. So, what with the library and your wonderful wildlife, you’ve got a lot to keep you busy! 🙂
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I edited and reposted it. There is more to the story, but a lot of it gets political and I don’t want to start a war. Yet. But eventually, I might add more context and why people are still pretty touchy about it. Some of their reasons are good.
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