Indiana Fall 2023, Part 4 – Old Country Home

Abandoned Home 1, Indiana Backroad October 24, 2023

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.

Abandoned Home 2, Indiana Backroad October 24, 2023

More Indiana Fall to come,

Ken

Indiana Fall 2023, Part 2 – Old, Leaning House

Leaning House 1, October 24, 2023 Bean Blossom Indiana

I first photographed this small, old, abandoned, leaning house in the fall of 2022.  It is just off of the highway running through Bean Blossom and Morgantown, Indiana.  My wife and I drove past it a number of times this fall (2023) and I stopped once to photograph it, while the trees still retained most of their fall foliage.

There are other homes and buildings nearby this house, which I tried to keep as much out of the photos as possible.  That limited how I could compose these images.

Leaning House 2, October 24, 2023 Bean Blossom Indiana
Leaning House 3, October 24, 2023 Bean Blossom Indiana

As I returned across the highway to my vehicle, a woman leaving the parking lot stopped to tell me that there had been more old structures where the parking lot and a store were now located.  All those had been taken down to put in the store and parking lot.  I wish I had been around to photograph those now missing structures.

More fall photos later,

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.

Exfoliating Barn
Nobody’s Home
Fall Fade
Indiana Barn and Post Harvest Field
Past Peak
RV Barn
Why am I Forsaken
Old Homestead
More than leaves are falling here

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.

Indiana Barn
Leaning Gate Barn

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

Abandoned House, Texas Panhandle, September 28, 2020

I have driven the same route through the Texas Panhandle numerous times in my travels, seeing numerous old, abandoned houses and businesses.  Occasionally, I will take a few minutes to stop and photograph some of these, if I have time in my schedule to do so.

Abandoned House. Nikon D850, Nikon 24-70mm @ 70mm, 1/250s, f/11, ISO 250.

This house is just off of a highway and almost completely surrounded by high grass and trees.  I had made a mental note of it several times and finally decided to stop by to photograph it.

The view above is seen as one is driving to the northwest.  If driving from the the northwest, the house is almost hidden and can easily be overlooked.

Abandoned House. Nikon D850, Nikon 24-70mm @ 38mm, 1/125s, f/11, ISO 250.

The sun was almost directly overhead, the light bright and harsh, so I converted the images to monochrome, which gives more pleasing images under these conditions.

I photographed all around the house, but with the dense vegetation, I did not get good images from other view points.

Ken