There are lots of issues in the country and the world these days, and nobody is going to waste much time or money on the many barns that collapsed during this long and relentless winter.

The way of life they represented has no real place in the Corporate Nation, in a free-trade world where more than 90 per cent of the country hugs the coasts. These barns have great dignity, and lasted a long time, saw a lot of hard work, fed a lot of people, sheltered many animals.

They litter the landscape now, as the snow recedes a bit, like ghost ships to a fading way of life. I want to use my camera to remember them, and when I drive by, they call to me, that they mattered, were important, and will be missed. Noted.