ActiveRainPhotoBloggerContest |This Old Barn
This old barn was part of the Circle C Ranch which is located just outside of Temecula, CA. Like many ranches of days gone by, the Circle C was split into smaller parcels and sold. Growing up as a child in Orange County I watched many farms and ranches disappear. The strawberry, asparagus and cauliflower fields are gone and a metropolis has taken hold. When I moved to Georgia as a young adult, I watched the outskirts of Atlanta break into smaller pieces, too. It seemed that everywhere fields and crops were being replaced by housing tracts and shopping centers. As a youth, I rode horses for an old Irish steeplechase jockey who used to say, “Most people call it progress, I call it regress.” He disliked very much the encroaching he experienced during his thirty-year tenure at that stable. Once part of a large dairy farm, he bought a small 5-acre piece and leased additional acreage from the dairy. By the time I got to that stable in the seventies, it was down to just his five acres which was completely surrounded by houses. An eight foot cinder-block wall separated the stable from what seemed the rest of the world. Prior to that, he had leased a coastal property from the Irvine Ranch along Pacific Coast Highway between Jamboree and Avocado in Corona Del Mar. There, too, he observed much of the same thing. As I sit out here in the hills East of Temecula, I see the remnants of the Circle C ranch in the two remaining barns, one barn here on the property where I live and the other on the neighboring property, as photographed. I also see remnants also of how my own life has changed. The days of making my living from the back of a horse through teaching and training has been trimmed to listing and selling horse property and seemingly less time for the saddle. I find it somewhat ironic that I now list and sell those same kinds of properties that I watched disappear and yet, they are really only remnants of a once bigger ranch now split into smaller ranches. Beth Barbour, Realtor®
PrimeHorseProperty.com
Allison James Estates & Homes
951-251-LAND
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