# 18 ~ Abandoned but Still Standing

“No matter what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. 

No matter how you lived ~ well or poorly.”

~Joseph Brodsky

The Old House

 A never used old tractor, a vintage truck, and a rusted horseshoe on the fence post. 

The Outbuilding/Garage  ~ Note NO TRESPASSING SIGN

The Horseshoe and Front Porch in 2013
It doesn’t look like much has changed in 2 1/2  years.

This is an old homeplace about a mile from our house. The property is still in the family and no one is allowed behind the fence and the No Trespassing sign. Back in 2013, they were still using the house to store the hay bales for their cows, but yesterday there appeared to be nothing inside though the old swing is still hanging there on the front porch.

“No matter what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. 
No matter how you lived ~ well or poorly.”
~Joseph Brodsky

The first three pictures were taken with a Canon PowerShot D20 on January 14, 12016
The last picture was taken back on November 11, 2013, with my iPhone 4S.

Abandoned and Lonely

This post is linked with Good Fences.

The Story of an Old Farm on Turkey Hill ~ SOOC

Two years ago a small barn stood here, but it was in disrepair. As you can see, it is now gone but the cows seem quite contented to be grazing there. This farm is right down the road from the pond on Turkey Hill I posted a few days ago. I did have some pictures of the structure while it was still standing, but when my computer went cafluie a while back they ended up somewhere in thousands of pictures all out of place and in one jumbled mess.

Here is the other barn the way it looked the day I shot the pictures of the one on the ground.

This is the way it looks now...and it appears to be being used for storage. I think it looks a bit worse that it did back then I shot the other picture. You cannot tell from this, but the old barn was directly off to the left from this one...on the left of that little dirt roadway up to the present barn complex. The old homeplace sat in the middle of the two barns.  Sorry I could not get better shots of the newer structure, but it was way too far back up that hill for me to get any nearer than the road. I am thinking that the people who own or rent the farm live somewhere else because I have not been able to see any sort of structure resembling a  house.

This is the old homeplace which is now boarded up and windowless in places. At one time it was definitely a fine old wooden someplace with a fine chimney. The long building at the top of the picture is where the equipment is housed and they is hay up there, too. It is a much newer structure as you can tell.

 I have saved my favorite shot until the end. Seeing the old homeplace with that beautiful mountain in the background makes me imagine a large family living on a working farm. I like to think of what it looked like at sunrise and sunset. I like to picture small children playing outside and maybe attending a one room schoolhouse.  I imagine the simple life of old. It must have been lovely time and a wonderful place to live.

All of these photos are SOOC.

This post is linked with Tricia’s Barn Charm.

Deserted and All Alone

This post is linked with Tricia’s "Barn Charm."

For the Love of Texture X 4

 Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Treasures in the Woods

Abandoned Cabin

Leaves Refusing To Leave Their Home

This post is linked with Texture Thursday.

The Charm of Two Old Barns

This is a drive-by shot. My DIL was driving, and I was in the passenger seat snapping pictures. When I saw this one coming up, I almost flipped out. None of the structures appear to be in use, but they seem to me to be holding their own. It would be so sad to lose these 

wonderful old structures. 

This post is linked with Tricia’s Barn Charm.and Lisa’s Creative Exchange.

I used Kim’s “The Red Barn” recipe from her Test Kitchen book. It called for a black to white gradient map, an ivory solid adjustment layer, and then her “scripted” texture for the final one.