You Capture - Rustic

Wow! Was this week's You Capture difficult!!! The topic was rustic. When I first saw that last week, I thought 'What does that word really even mean...?' When I think of rustic, I think of old log cabins, lots of wood and certain foods. Actually, when I fantasize about owning my own restaurant, I think rustic would be a very good term to describe what I see in my head. Kinda log cabin-ish, dark colors, heavy comfort food, like beef stew and homemade mac n cheese. But what to photograph for this challenge? The more I thought about it, the more I thought about things like old barns or old wooden farm houses. My town is totally surrounded by farms, so I thought this could be easier than I'd first expected. And I had the idea to actually make some beef stew for dinner this week. And then Wednesday night was already here and I hadn't gotten a chance to take the photos (or make the stew) that I'd been planning in my head. Doh.

That being said, I did take a couple shots at my parents' house on Sunday. That sunroom that I mentioned in my crazy dream is all made of wood on the inside. My mom's got a country kind of style, so I took advantage and got a couple shots there.

Cowbell that hangs in the sunroom...I thought it was kinda rusticky...Yes? No? :-)

Wood is rustic...Wood comes from trees...I really just like the angles in this shot.

This is totally not rustic, but I love it. This robin was just hopping around in the muddy leaves. My fam had just been admiring the birds at my mom's feeder (cardinals, chickadees, finches) and I saw this guy avoiding the masses. My final rustic photo. I like this one a lot, too. I don't remember where this bird house came from...Something my mom picked up at one time, I'm sure. I'm going to say this is my favorite one this week because I feel it best represents the topic.