Tag: Rusty

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

Indiana, Fall 2022, Part 5 – Rustic Barn and Abandoned Home

Faded Red Barn

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.

Quaint, Old, Abandoned Indiana Farm House

The image above was selected for Flickr’s Explore Page.

Abandoned Home and Barn 1
Quaint and Old
Abandoned Home and Barn 2
Rusty Fall

More fall in Indian 2022 later,

Ken

 

Indiana, Fall 2022, Part 3 – Rustic Farm Barn and Sheds

Monochrome Barn

Traveling an Indiana backroad I saw a group of old, rustic farm structures in various stages of structural failure.  The roadway was narrow.  Parking alongside the roadway and photographing from the roadway would not be satisfactory nor very safe.  There was only one house nearby, so I stopped and knocked on the door.  A lady with her hair in curlers opened the door and I briefly explained why I was there, asking if it would be ok for me to photography those old structures.  She quickly said she was sure it would be ok, although, I’m rather sure she was not the owner, but maybe others have asked her this same question.

There was a short grassy, dirt road at the old buildings.  I parked on that dirt road, just off of the pavement far enough for safety and proceeded to walk around the area photographing the buildings from various angles.

Stacked
Gathering Grass – Monochrome with Selective Colorization

A rolling stone may gather no moss, but a stationary wheel can gather grass.

Relaxed
Indiana Farm Sheds
Fall Lounge
Support
3160

I lived in a house with this same number many years ago.

Wet, Rusty, Tin Roof
Full Tilt Fall
Log Barn
Colorful Fall Hillside

After photographing the rustic farm building, I continued to meander around the backroads looking for other fall photographic opportunities.  This final photo is a teaser for the next post.

Ken

Abandoned Truck in Colorado Mountains

After photographing an abandoned mine mill near Animas Forks, CO, we drove back along a 4 wheel drive road towards Animas Forks, keeping an eye out for an abandoned truck we had been told about.

We soon spotted the truck a short distance up a spur road.

Final Resting Place
Below Peak
No Delivery Today
Forlorn
RIP

Wildflowers and clouds seem to be trying to comfort this old, rusting, abandoned truck in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Later,

Ken

 

Silverton, Colorado, August 2022

Silverton, Colorado is a picturesque old town nestled below Rocky Mountain peaks along U.S. 550 between Durango and Ouray.  Silverton originated during mining boom times in the nearby mountains and was a rowdy place of saloons and bawdy houses, where the miners came to spend their wages, earned by their hard toiling in the mines.

It is now a major tourist attraction with lots of art galleries, antique shops, souvenir shops of all sorts and numerous restaurants and eating places to choose from.  Nothing here is inexpensive, food or otherwise.

Silverton, CO

When we decided it was time to have lunch, most of the restaurants were crowded, including the limited outdoor seating, which we required, since we were traveling with a miniature labradoodle.

We ended up purchasing sandwiches from a food truck that had picnic tables and umbrellas for shade.  The sandwiches were tasty.  In talking to the lady working in the food truck, we discovered she and the food truck were from East Texas not so far from our home base.  They trailer the food truck to Silverton for the tourist season, live in an RV, then back to Texas in the winter months.  There were lots of Texans in Colorado.  No doubt fleeing the excessively hot and dry summer in Texas this year.

Next up a spur of the moment decision to take a 4 wheel drive road to the ghost town of Animas Forks.

Rusty Truck

Let’s hope we don’t end up like this rusty truck in a Silverton alleyway.

Until then,

Ken