Don’t be here, when the sun goes down tonight.
Our neighbors here in the backwoods of Indiana are friendly, but I don’t know about their dog.
Happy Halloween and stay safe,
Ken
Trick or Treat 2024
Tag: Old Home
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 4 – Old Country Home
I found this old, abandoned house just a short distance from the cabin in which we were staying in the fall of 2022.
I returned this fall (2023) to photograph it again. The fall leaves had mostly fallen the year before, when I found it. This year the fall color was good and not yet peak.
The house is little changed since 2022, but the weeds around it were taller and thicker, as if the lot is more neglected now.
More Indiana Fall to come,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2022 – Old and/Or Abandoned
With only one day left of our fall 2022 Indiana visit, I traveled the backroads from our cabin one last time. Many trees were already bare, peak color was nearly all gone, it was overcast and threatening rain, so I hoped to find interesting barns, old homes or other interesting rural scenes to photograph.
Those three trees out front were probably planted with the anticipation of sitting on the porch in their shade some years down the road. The child’s bike beside the house makes me think that a family lived here or maybe a child visited grandparents here.
I saw numerous other interesting rural scenes similar to these, but either there was no place to pull off of the roadway to photograph those or those were set back too far on private property to approach without permission.
This is the final post for Indiana Fall 2022.
Thanks for following,
Ken
Indiana, Fall 2022, Part 5 – Rustic Barn and Abandoned Home
I first saw this old barn and a nearby abandoned house, while in route to another destination. I came back a few days later to photograph these old, rustic buildings.
The image above was selected for Flickr’s Explore Page.
More fall in Indian 2022 later,
Ken
Animas Forks, CO
We finally arrived in Animas Forks, where we did not intend to linger for long, since we still had to drive back to Silverton, then on to our lodging in Ridgway, CO. and the day was slipping away.
One of the best remaining old structures in Animas Forks is the old home of William Duncan. This site was completely covered by an avalanche a few years ago and I was curious to see how it had survived.
Water damage to the old wood structure is evident. Maybe some of this was there before the avalanche, but I do not recall seeing such damage the last time I was here.
For its age this old home is in remarkably sound shape.
Of course, many visitors have to scratch their names and initials into the wall boards, which have a nice aged patina.
The inhabitants here had magnificent mountain views.
As we were getting back to our vehicle to begin our return trip, the couple we had met on the road at a waterfall, drove up and we chatted again. I learned that the driver was a retired photographer, who was happy not to have to continue making school photographs. He told me about an old mill nearby that his dad had made a painting of many years ago and also about an abandoned truck just a short distant past Animas Forks.
My wife was reluctant, having had enough of this rocky road, but relented to allow me to try to find that old truck.
Stay tuned to see if I was successful,
Ken