Hi Don, Really brings back memories of my childhood living on a farm in Ohio, never new why some barns are red and others white. Nice moody painting with great color.
Here's an uneducated stab at the answer: maybe originally a dairy farm = milk = white barn, while beef cattle = red meat = red barn?? Or maybe it was simply the availability of white lime or iron oxide (or sometimes, animal blood) to make paint??
Aaahh, the red barns I've been looking for. Love 'em -- missed it again. Gotta learn to type faster, I guess -- or not go on vacation and have to use someone else's unfamiliar computer. I like the stories of why barns are red. You certainly know a farmer or 2 to ask!!!
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Hi Don, Really brings back memories of my childhood living on a farm in Ohio, never new why some barns are red and others white. Nice moody painting with great color.
Here's an uneducated stab at the answer: maybe originally a dairy farm = milk = white barn, while beef cattle = red meat = red barn??
Or maybe it was simply the availability of white lime or iron oxide (or sometimes, animal blood) to make paint??
Thanks for your thoughts, Stephen.
I thought it had to do with snow. The red barns were easy to find in the snowstorm. Maybe they didn't want the cows to find the white ones?
Now a boy from Maine would think of something like that!
Aaahh, the red barns I've been looking for. Love 'em -- missed it again. Gotta learn to type faster, I guess -- or not go on vacation and have to use someone else's unfamiliar computer. I like the stories of why barns are red. You certainly know a farmer or 2 to ask!!!
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