Monday's Pictures

Good Monday evening to ya'll. I am having a brain-dead day today and nothing is coming to my brain to write, so I am going to share some of my pictures of old buildings here in Cook County and in Lowndes. These are a few of my favorites. You know I have a fascination for old buildings and like to imagine what they looked like when they were being lived in. You can almost here the laughter and conversations of the families. If walls could only talk.


This the Little Red House located behind our place on Old Union Road. I asked the owner of the property who owned it originally and they don't know. They just call it the Little Red House.








This is what is left of the original barn and as you can see it was built with logs.





This is the back of the house. It is in amazingly good condition.












This is and old store, I think, on Shiloh Road in Lowndes County. It has been gutted and someone keeps the grass cut.






An old barn in Lowndes County. It breaks my heart to see them falling down. The lines are there but sort of sagging.






This is a "pack" house or storage house at the old Rountree home place on Rountree Bridge Road in Cook County Georgia.





The old Rountree family home











This is a palmetto plant in the front yard. I liked the symmetry of the green plant and the old branch. This is God's floral arrangement.

This is a closer view of the storage house.

The following pictures are of a split-rail fence at the Rountree place. I was taken with the beauty of this hand built fence even though it is falling down.

The zig-zag lines of the fence are still strikingly pretty to me. Someone spent many hours arranging these rails to sit on top of each other with no nails that I could find.

I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I do. They tell a lovely story of hard work and usefulness from long ago.

Nuff said,

The Georgia Peach

Sunday's Pictures

Old tobacco barns and other buildings from Cook County Georgia are quickly disappearing from our lands. I think they are beautiful though their walls may be leaning to one side and their foundations crumbling. Once they stood straight and were built to be be used to dry tobacco, the main crop in this area years ago. Families planted, picked, dried and sold this crop to buy what their families needed. It was a tough way to make a living and these old barns were a necessary part of this cycle.

One of the newer versions on McConnel Bridge Road. It is now being used for storage as many others are today.

Older barn on CountyFarm Road. Main building material was wood and it is no longer being used. I like the way the sun gilds the roof.

This is the oldest I have found and is also on County Farm Road. It was built from logs and parts are still standing.

Another view of one of the newer style barns.

Log Tobacco barn

This is an older home on Old Union Road which I have admired. I am sure it was once a fine home for a family who built it with pride.

I hope you have enjoyed these pictures and I will continue to share them with you as I travel throughout the county with my camera to capture some of these sturdy, useful buildings which are almost gone.

Nuff said,

The Georgia Peach