vita marie lovett
mixed media artist - live life creatively
On one of the many backroads of Tennessee, covered by fast growing weeds, this barn with its “Hidden Hinge” sits precariously close to the newly expanded road. A little piece of roadside history surrounded by new homes.
“Mending Fences” was inspired by the next door neighbors horses who always seem to find an undetected break in the fencing to come over and enjoy our pasture.
Legend has it that this seaside Victorian house is haunted. In the late 1800’s Celeste Eppes in an attempt to make her husband jealous, lied about his best friend having an interest in her. Her husband confronted him in the parlor of the house. He of course denied any wrongdoing, but was shot with a bullet through his heart. The truth came out during the trial and the town shunned Celeste. She died a few years later during childbirth. She has been thought to have haunted this house ever since. People say you can see her peering out through the windows….
The tall and slender Southern Blue Flag Iris surrounded the stone foundation of this weathering gray barn in Franklin, North Carolina.
Traveling along winding rural Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado, I found this barn. Its door was just barely attached by rusted hinges; windows had been boarded and covered with old chicken wire. Colorful fireweed grows wild among the abandoned chicken wire.