Karin Hedetniemi captures the serenity of the Alberta, Canada countryside in her images today.

Only the Sound of Crickets

If you take the scenic highway outside Drumheller, Alberta, through the canyons, over eleven old metal bridges, past the rusted railway car and the Last Chance Saloon, down a lonesome gravel road, and turn down a dirt lane to a farmer’s antique shop inside a quonset, you can lean on his fence and bathe in the quiet peace of late summer barley.

Weathered

I’ve always been drawn to old weathered barns, the way blue sky and swallows stream through open beams and cracks between boards, the way sunlight peels the paint, the way these old structures mark a location in time and space within the endless expanse of a rural landscape. Old barns have stories.