Failed Barn

This is another view of the farmyard I photographed on November 29. I don't remember ever seeing a silo knocked on its side quite like this; if they're not deliberately taken down they usually outlast everything else, or rot away from the top.

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Purchased a shirt at Gander Mountain a year ago, then bought m'self breakfast. On my way home I took Eaton Highway out of Grand Ledge, something I'd not done in years. As I discussed in a comment under the November 29 photo, things had changed since my last venture down this road.

Like the Sebewa trip a couple days before, this was a conscious scouting trip. One of the challenges facing a photo-a-day photographer is boredom. Shooting the same subject--or even the same photo--every day is an option, of course, but most of us grow stale without some variety. I was seeking some new photographs, not just for this day but prospects for other days.

I imagine I'll be discussing this right to the end of the year.

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"We've straightened the creeks and call 'em drains." So I labelled my 366 Snaps photo. This is generally true hereabouts--the local stream's called "The Mulliken Drain"--but I need to confess that the drain in the photo goes by Freyer Creek.

I've long wondered who decided to rationalize Eaton County's drainage system, when they did it, and how they funded it. Doubtless he was a county drain commissioner. Mayhap someday I'll check into it.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 17
Title of "roll:" Eaton Highway, mostly
Other photos taken on 4/4/2012: Joan called me when she got to work, reporting turkeys courting in a field on Cochran. Then I spent the morning shooting pix of birds in the yard. All in all, over three hundred photos, all with the V1. This time I used the long lens.