Rock City Barn TN-8. On U.S. 11, three miles south of Louden, TN, in Louden County. What's happening with the Rock City Gardens sign?
It's gonna snow!
The weather-talking-heads on TV and radio are all a-twitter and a-twerp, as if it has never snowed before, and if it has, there has never been a snow like this one that's coming!
Actually, snow has been kinda rare recently here in northwest Georgia and east Tennessee (not counting in the Smoky Mountains, where they usually get some snow just because of altitude).
In the 1950s, '60s, '70s, and even into the '90s, snow was fairly common. When I was in school in Chattanooga in the mid-'50s to the early '60s, we could usually count on two or three snows of six to ten inches most winters.
In the 1970s, those people who have a vested interest in controlling the populace by terrorizing us were warning us about global cooling and a new ice age. That didn't pan out, but fortunately (for them) things warmed up a bit and they were able to switch horses, as it were, and terrorize us with global warming, and later, with a fearsome pandemic that turned out in actual fact to be no more dangerous than the flu that goes around every year.
Rock City Barn TN-20. Putting out hay on a snowy day. U.S. Highway 11E in Hamblen County, Tennessee, 1.5 miles south of Bull's Gap.
When I was making photographs for the Rock City Barns book, I wanted to photograph some scenes of barns in snow. One winter day in early 1995, I learned that it had snowed in northeast Tennessee, so the next day Louise and I set out in our old Chevy Blazer (fortunately with four-wheel-drive) to make some pictures.
We went as far north as Rogersville, where I got a nice barn-in-snow photo and we ate lunch at the historic Hale Springs Inn, built in 1824. We also found a number of other barns to photograph. All in all, it was a really cool day, if you'll excuse the expression.
(Like most of the photographs in the book Rock City Barns: A Passing Era, these were made with Canon EOS A2 film cameras and Canon EF lenses.)
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The "RDE" are on a sliding barn door, and the door is open (covering the "N")!
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