I retire from the workforce this week and to celebrate have decided to retire my current blogs and start afresh with a single consolidated blog - My Bright Field - to record the delights of my new life adventure. If you are interested follow me over there. I will still be Sweet Wayfaring and collecting Royal Hotels. The delights I discover along the way will appear together with my gardens and towns where I live.
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
What wonderful old treasures - a photographers delight!
ReplyDeleteLove the lean on the second one. I always wonder who lived there.
ReplyDeleteThat's my kind of rust.
ReplyDeleteMy kind of rust too!
ReplyDeleteRust, ditto. And look at those timbers on the lower half of that first photograph. Is that what is known as a 'split shingle'? I suspect that to be perhaps even 19th century.
ReplyDeleteSplit shingle ... not idea.
ReplyDeleteActually it was the timber rather than the rust that captivated my attention plus a two story structure like this is unusual. Or maybe wasn't unusual once and the rest of them got burnt down, fell down or eaten by termites.
I just remembered. Old timers tell me there was a two story structure like this in the backyard of our mountain home. A garage, the driver lived in the upper level. It got knocked down as part of a boundary dispute, apparently it was encroaching on the neighbour's land.
ReplyDeleteGreat old buildings. It looks like you caught them at the right moment. It does not look like they will remain standing for very much longer
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