Silent Observer
Grain elevators have faces, even if they don’t have mouths.
Grain elevators have faces, even if they don’t have mouths.
I love these old wooden grain elevators. Coupled with the wild cloud formation, it looks downright heroic.
Near the old Shoe-Tree sat this imposing old building. We didn’t go much closer to it than this.
What a great moment:
This lonely old horse was just hanging out in front of the the old cabin, and was really more interested in smelling my camera more than anything. Pretty thin and looking fairly bored, it certainly enjoyed the modest company that we afforded it- but a horse sniffing the lens just isn’t as interesting as it could be…
Then Jayda stood nearby and offered the hungry thing a carrot. Here’s that moment.
This old house has seen some better days.
The front door is riddled with shotgun blasts and the front porch (or is that the roof of the front porch?) has completely collapsed.
Like memories in bloom, the overgrown flowers keep singing their old yellow tune.
I can’t tell if this had a porch or a covered porch exactly, but walking up to it revealed a lot of boards laying about the front. The door had been kicked in and shot numerous times with a shotgun. Whatever happened here, I bet it made for a great plot twist…
This quaint, peaceful church is located just off of Highway 97. It’s easy to miss because it has some beautifully overgrown trees around it. It’s well-taken care of, and the nearby town adores it. I wish more old buildings had the fate of this one. It’s almost idyllic in it’s peacefulness.
This was one of the more foreboding estates we came across. I saw the line of trees from afar, and it took a while to wind our way through the hills before we came to this house. It seemed strangely vivid for a such a modest, abandoned building. Right behind it, all the planted trees appeared to lean in the same direction, as if pulled by a force that we couldn’t see. One of the trees had collapsed through the back half of the house.
This was shot with a Lensbaby Composer- which is a remarkably creative lens. I like the Lensbaby for food photography as well, but the smooth depth of field control really adds emotion to landscape shots like this one.
On the top of a gently sloping hill sits this beautiful schoolhouse. It’s very windy on this hill, and the grasses threaten to take over. The flagpole can be seen from pretty far away, but this area is deceptively hilly. Many times we came around some bend or hilltop and suddenly, what was so remote and isolated is filled with what sometimes feels like ancient civilization… Modern ruins.
This is the front door of the same house as seen in #6 – Little House in the Canyon, #7 – Home Sweet Homestead, and #10 – Keep the Shade In.
I have no idea what actually happened to cause such a rip in the front door screen like this. But it has the remarkable resemblance of a cartoon-character silhouette of a devilish shape, horns, mustache and all!