The red barns.

May 13, Mechanicsburg.

We've been traveling through red barn area since entering Indiana, my mother would love them, big and round and bright, inviting, all-American, celebrating the small farm and its promises, and now there are also lots of square, red brick houses, the old school house type, and beautiful mansions reminiscent of grand times past, with expensive, well maintained front lawns lining the avenues in the towns we go through, Urbana this morning, Van Wert a few days ago.