Mother Nature’s Christmas gift has become glazed like fine porcelain. Colorful objects wrapped in the snow pop visually. Old and old-looking red structures are especially eye-catching. Here’s a neighbor’s red-daubed workshop that was built in the early 1900s and reportedly was used to carve wooden decoys for duck hunting, among other things:
Here’s the present red Amen Farm “barn,” which actually is a recently rebuilt place, reportedly with an entertainment great room and fireplace, among other human amenities:
That structure is reminiscent of the original Amen Farm barn, which reportedly was built about 1850. That well-worn barn last housed goats and chickens before it was torn down and replaced.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on December 26, 2025.)