The Barn Collective - A link up for barns

Fall 2013
Extreme southern Giles County, Tennessee

I didn't get many takers on the barn linkup, but I'll do this one and see what happens.
I'm calling it The Barn Collective
(and I'm also sharing with Rubbish Tuesday)

An InLinkz Link-up

Spilling corn

Yellow field corn being offloaded from the harvester into a transport container.

The Barn Collective

Taking a poll here . . . who would be interested in participating in another barn link up?
If there is enough interest indicated by comments on this post, I will do a trial run maybe next Monday-Tuesday.  I do not want to commit to a regularly scheduled one until I see what the time obligations will be for me.
So, no promises for an ongoing meme, but let's do one round!

Thanks,
Amy

Big Blue

Almost every color in the rainbow can be found on a blueberry bush.

From earlier this summer in our blueberry patch.

Harvest

In keeping with Madge's post today about harvest, this is what happened around my place today.

Harvesting corn.

Sharing with:

Weekly Top Shot with Madge Bloom @ The View From Right Here

Pokeweed review

My annual shots of the poke weed plant that comes up down at the garden.

I always remind my husband to leave one stalk because I think it's a looker.

These were taken one evening in late August just seconds apart and the only change was that I stepped to the west a couple feet and pointed the camera more to the south to get the garage out of the shot.  Just a couple of feet can change the lighting quite a bit.

Garden spider

An enormous garden spider at my in-laws' a couple of weeks ago.

Huge.

About two inches at least.

Idyllic

Got it all here.

Rural, old, architecture, abandoned, fence, church, blue sky

Sometimes we avoid the interstate going back and forth to Nashville.

We found this gem this week.

Bear Creek Road, Between Culleoka and Lynnville, Tennessee

iPhone 5 photo

Sharing throughout the next week with:
Weekly Top Shot,    InSPIREd Sunday,   Rubbish Tuesday,   Good Fences

Abandoned foundry

Abandoned U. S. Pipe / foundry along Interstate 24

Chattanooga, Tennessee, U. S. A.

I've always wanted to get photos of this abandoned property.

Finally, I wasn't driving and remembered to get the camera ready as we whizzed by on the interstate.
I would love to get in there and explore.
f11, 1/2000 sec, ISO 800, ~60 mph

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Rubbish by Roan

Corn, barley, and rye

My husband and I wanted to take a day trip before he starts more chemo.  We went to Lynchburg, Tennessee, the home of the Jack Daniel Distillery.  Jack Daniel's is the highest selling American whiskey in the world.  We had been on the tour before, and have been to Lynchburg a few times, but it is a good day trip and not too long a drive.

In our tour group of about 15 people, there were folks from Canada, Venezuela, Pennsylvania, and three men from southern California who were there to purchase a batch of select single barrel.

I don't remember all the details about the process and could not hear the tour guide very well much of the time.  Plus, I'm just not that interested so my attention span wasn't very good.

I was more into to looking than listening.

If you are interested, Wikipedia has a bit more information.

The packaging room was the only indoor building where we were allowed to take photos.  We lucked up and got there just as they were starting to package a special Single Barrel batch.

Bottle filling

This special batch gets a brass tag on each bottle.

The single barrel is the barrel at the topmost location in one of the 80 plus barrel warehouses in the town of Lynchburg.  Something about the conditions at the top of the warehouse make that whiskey special.

You too, can have your own select single barrel bottled for a mere $12,000.  I believe the guide said that is 400 bottles . . .  I may have that wrong.  It doesn't sound like enough money per bottle.

The above is the furnace where those Sugar Maple wood pallets are turned into the charcoal which is used for removing impurities from the product.

The Jack Daniel Distillery is in Moore County, Tennessee, which is a dry county.

You can't legally buy alcoholic beverages anywhere in the county.

However, there are hundreds of thousands of gallons of whiskey in the county at any given time.

The Moore County Tennessee Courthouse.

For those of you who are wondering . . .  yes, we did eat lunch at Miss Mary Bobo's.  For those of you who do not know, Miss Bobo's is a family style "restaurant" in an old boarding house owned by the Jack Daniel Distillery.  Reservations are coveted, especially on weekends, mostly for the experience. The experience is a good one, as you get to eat family style around a large table with a hostess and ten or so strangers.  Our table mates were good ones, also from around the U. S.
I can recommend it for the experience, but not necessarily for the food.
Credit card required to make a reservation.
Yep, even the 3-digit code on the back.
They are proud of what they have to offer.
The distillery tour is free unless you want the tasting tour, which I believe, is $10/person.

Late summer weeknight

School has started and vacationers are home on this weeknight in late August.

Joe Wheeler State Park Lodge

Rogersville, Alabama, U. S. A.

The Shoals

Vintage transportation

Bicycle rickshaw parked next to a church which was next to this historic marker.

Franklin, Tennessee, U. S. A.

(all iPhone5 shots)

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Rubbish by Roan

Children of the corn

These children are tiny flowers that grow throughout the corn field.  (Corny, I know.)
(oh, and when human children start coming out of these corn fields, I'm moving.)

I have already found my scary Halloween font.  (also corny).  Reminds me of Hobby Lobby.  They get the next season's things on the shelves months ahead of time.  And, I have had the John Carpenter theme song from the horror movie "Halloween" in the back of my mind.
At least I did wait until September.