When Bossy is in need of pin money, maybe she could get a job painting that building. The grim reaper could help with the high parts. He wouldn’t get hurt if he fell as he is already gone.
That looks a lot like the building in a painting of a creepy old house that my Mom used to keep above the fireplace. Hers didn’t have a little grim reeper on the roof, but was somehow much spookier.
Why are you showing the back side and not the front side of that building? I wann’a see the front so I can have “all around austerity” please. Thank you!
I loved all the old buildings when we visited Vermont. That was on our first visit East. We saw houses built in the 1700s that had families living in them — just another house to them and the neighbors — no historical designation or anything! We’re from the West Coast, where anything older than oh.. 1900 or so is a antique.
Anyway — your pictures make me want to go back — maybe next spring. So many places so little time.
Reminds me of the Grange Hall, in the teeny-tiny Maine town my mother is from. Family reunion with 14 aunts and uncles and their spouses and 50 + cousins, bathing in the creek because of no bathtub (running water was fairly avant garde in the 70s there), the four-holer (fowa-hole-a in Maine-ese) outhouse…
Yes, yes, yes. Love New England buildings. Dharmamama#18 above describes the Grange Hall in MY teeny-tiny Maine hometown too! Except without the fowa-hole-a…that’s the icing on the cake.
RBG says
August 13, 2009 at 7:47 amDoes “austere” mean haunted by the shrieking ghosts of abused mental patients or evil school headmistresses?
SEE says
August 13, 2009 at 7:51 amIs that a person on the roof? I can’t see it clearly, but maybe that’s because I haven’t done my eye yoga yet.
Sewmouse says
August 13, 2009 at 8:24 amWhere “austere” means “Seriously in need of a paint job”?
Linda says
August 13, 2009 at 8:50 amha ha.. it does look like a miniature grim reaper sitting on the roof
Gail K. says
August 13, 2009 at 10:48 amMakes we want to start singing “Country roads, take me home” to Massachusetts – which is where I belong! Not in the O state I currently reside in.
magpie says
August 13, 2009 at 10:57 amI love that. I love the flaky paint and the odd fenestration. I love the ambiance. And I totally understand why you took that picture.
Reeb says
August 13, 2009 at 10:59 amVery austere. No softening from “foundation plantings” even. Good observation, good shot. So different from where all I’ve lived. thanks.
junebug says
August 13, 2009 at 11:00 amOf course as all astute observers commented on the figure on the roof, I too, noticed that. Sherlock Holmes, perhaps?
David says
August 13, 2009 at 11:48 amLove the word “austere.”
Kait says
August 13, 2009 at 12:09 pmIs that the grim reaper on the roof? Creepy.
Ms. Cranky Pants says
August 13, 2009 at 12:19 pm“Puritan Institutional” is the new black.
Birdbrain says
August 13, 2009 at 1:44 pmLinda and Kait are right, that is a miniature grim reaper on the roof.
Suzi says
August 13, 2009 at 2:15 pmWhen Bossy is in need of pin money, maybe she could get a job painting that building. The grim reaper could help with the high parts. He wouldn’t get hurt if he fell as he is already gone.
Grizzly Kitteh says
August 13, 2009 at 3:38 pmThat looks a lot like the building in a painting of a creepy old house that my Mom used to keep above the fireplace. Hers didn’t have a little grim reeper on the roof, but was somehow much spookier.
Leslie says
August 13, 2009 at 5:05 pmWhy are you showing the back side and not the front side of that building? I wann’a see the front so I can have “all around austerity” please. Thank you!
Lizzy says
August 13, 2009 at 8:10 pmIs that a creepy little pin-headed goblin with a hatchet? I hope not.
Sallie says
August 13, 2009 at 9:48 pmI loved all the old buildings when we visited Vermont. That was on our first visit East. We saw houses built in the 1700s that had families living in them — just another house to them and the neighbors — no historical designation or anything! We’re from the West Coast, where anything older than oh.. 1900 or so is a antique.
Anyway — your pictures make me want to go back — maybe next spring. So many places so little time.
Dharmamama says
August 14, 2009 at 12:40 pmReminds me of the Grange Hall, in the teeny-tiny Maine town my mother is from. Family reunion with 14 aunts and uncles and their spouses and 50 + cousins, bathing in the creek because of no bathtub (running water was fairly avant garde in the 70s there), the four-holer (fowa-hole-a in Maine-ese) outhouse…
reen says
August 14, 2009 at 4:58 pmYes, yes, yes. Love New England buildings. Dharmamama#18 above describes the Grange Hall in MY teeny-tiny Maine hometown too! Except without the fowa-hole-a…that’s the icing on the cake.
janny226 says
August 16, 2009 at 8:46 pmCool building.
Maria says
August 26, 2009 at 10:18 pmYou really need to come see Maine then…just sayin’.