This post is a continuation of photographs of relics I encountered during my June, 2025 trip to and from Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
This old house in a small rural town has so much lean that it appears to be relishing its status with a “swagger”. It was raining lightly, when I stopped to photograph here, so I moved around as expeditiously as I could, while capturing these images. Weeks later, when I got around to processing these images, I at first thought that my lens had distorted this old house, since I did not recall noting this much lean in real time. After examing multiple images, I had to conclude that the lean was not exaggerated by my camera.
The concrete pad out front with the water hydrant, makes me think this could have been a business site, maybe an old service station?
Across the street from “Swagger”, is this old boarded up house with a metal roof that seems to be in much better condition than the rest of the house. Maybe this place has not been abandoned for too many years.
There were a number of other abandoned homes and other old structures in the same neighborhood. “Made in the Shade” house seems to be relaxing in the shade of a tree, retired after a long life of sheltering others.
“Not as Neat as I Once Was” is done with the days of neat and orderly, with more important things to contemplate in its old age.
This old home has multiple outdoor laundry facilities.
“Gravity Wins” is the likely future for the abandoned structures in this post.
More Relic to come,
Ken