November 30: Abandoned or Artistic Buildings/Writer’s Choice/or Your WOTY Month-end review
“When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures… haha… to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!”
– Keegan Allen
Featured Bloggers Last Week
I am super grateful for all of you who visit and post each week. You bring me joy, I learn about the world far and near, and feel close to you and what you are doing in your lives.
- KEEP IT ALIVE – THANKS TO THE LOVELY GARDENERS OF OUR SOULS AND MAKE US HAPPY AND CAUSE US TO BLOSSOM.
- LADY LEE – THANKFUL FOR “TENDERNESS WITHOUT FRILLS” AND MUCH MORE.
- SECOND WIND LEISURE – GRATEFUL FOR VIVID MEMORIES OF HOME AND FAMILY
- THE SKEPTIC’S KADDISH – NEW JOB – NEW SECURITY YAY!
- TRAVELS AND TRIFLES – WHERE WOULD YOU TAKE VISITORS WHO HAVEN’T BEEN TO YOUR HOME COUNTRY?
For More Abandoned Buildings Visit These Blogs
- EKLASTIC – THE SCARY FACE BEHIND THE BURNT BUILDING
- KEEP IT ALIVE – NOT ABANDONED BUT SAVED FROM RUIN
- LOVING LIFE – THE STORIES THESE BUILDINGS COULD TELL!
- NOW AT HOME – THE DESERT SANDS TOOK OVER THE BUILDINGS!
- SECOND WIND LEISURE – SNOWY BUILDINGS, BUT NOT ABANDONED. IT’S TERRI’S BIRTHDAY!
- TRAVEL WITH ME – EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE IN BHAKTAPUR
- TRAVELS WITH ALI – ABANDONED BUILDINGS SO HIGH NEAR HONG KONG YOU WONDER HOW THEY GOT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!
- WORDS VISUAL – EERIE RUINS IN MID WALES
Abandoned in Elderwood
From Portland to Spokane Terri and I searched for abandoned barns for one of her Sunday Stills themes. We didn’t find anything. My question for this post is to consider if abandoned buildings are even art? Apparently, they are because when I searched for quotes I found an entire website on where to find abandoned buildings for photo shoots.
“Our search engine has helped millions of people scout out thousands of locations across the world, from derelict buildings to abandoned theme parks.
If you’re urban exploring or just looking for a place for a photo shoot, I’m sure we’ll having something for you to discover.”
– Shot Hotspot
Do you have photos of abandoned buildings? Why did you take the pictures? You have seen some of my pictures if you have known me long enough.
Vince and I had driven by an old barn less than a mile away from our home in California hundreds of times on our way home. One afternoon when the clouds were dark and the sun was strong, he looked at it and said that would be a great photo. He dropped me off I went crazy taking over 100 pictures that day. To see more pictures of Bob’s Barn click here.
Bob tore it down the next week and planted an orange grove.
“The abandoned building glowed golden in the light of the new day, its’ stones finding their way to join the dawn chorus.”
-Angela Abraham
A week ago I received an email asking me about an abandoned hotel just outside of Woodlake in an area known to locals as Redbanks. He wondered if a hotel out in the middle of nowhere was used for prostitution.
“I am wondering what kind of skullduggery was really happening at the Redbanks Hotel one hundred years ago, during the era of Prohibition. (I have my ideas ranging from a simple speakeasy coupled with prostitution to a “dry-out center” for Hollywood addicts.) What do you know? Do you have any ideas? “
-Richard
I sent him a copy posted on my Blogger Woodlake History website of an article written by an earlier historian about the history of the fruit company that built the building.
“Founded in 1904 Redbanks Orchard Company shipped trainloads of fruit around the country on the Electric Railroad in the early 1900s, “The Hotel” near Woodlake, California, was one of the most beautiful Spanish-style buildings in the area. Resembling a Southern Pacific depot, the building, constructed in 1914, served as the headquarters of the company.” earlier post on Redbanks
Schools are always favorites of mine. One of the schools was moved and preserved by one of the main contributors to my book about Woodlake, lifelong Woodlake resident, Robert Edmiston. In my earlier post about it, he said that the school had been on his “Granny Fudge’s” property so it might have been moved there at a later date than the 1860s. Antelope School was not established until 1870 and it was the first public school in the Woodlake area.
“By the end of the 1860s, the Colvins, Bacons, Barringtons, Fudges, and Reynolds had arrived in the Woodlake area. Thomas Henry Davis had hired one John Hill to teach his sons and the Fudge and Barrington children on Davis acres in a sheep shed.”
Roy Lee Davis, life-long Woodlake resident
Many buildings last much longer than 110 years in other parts of the world. In California, early buildings were not made to last. In some cases, once they served their purpose, they were abandoned. Untreated wood rots even in semi-desert areas, so the abandoned buildings slowly deteriorate.
Elda School sits close enough to Millwood Drive that you could almost touch it as you head into the mountains on the rural highway about five miles from our home in California. For each of the twenty years we lived there, I marveled that it still stood. When we passed by in May, it still remained. Is it a work of art or a pile of rotten wood?
Abandoned in Deleware
Another building that I enjoyed photographing was in Deleware next to Cousin Hal’s condominium complex – the first Catholic Church in Deleware. As I drove by it the first time, I couldn’t wait to get back and explore it. Why is that? What is the fascination with old abandoned buildings? I’ve written about St. Mary’s Church several times for photo challenges on my blog, so if you’ve seen it before, feel free to skip the clicks. But, if you’re like me and like to explore, here’s another St. Mary’s Post.
In retrospect, I should have posted this theme in October, right? Scary!
Vivid Abandonment in Arizona
This was the only photo of an abandoned building/dwelling I could find this week that was vivid enough to work for Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge this week. To the left of the picture, if you are not familiar with them, are Native American cliff dwellings.
Lens-Artist, Tina encouraged us to look around and decide where we would take a stranger if they were to visit our area. I’ve posted pictures of places near me that I probably wouldn’t take a stranger. However, Montezuma’s Well has an interesting history – enough to be declared a National Monument.
For Becky B my birthday outing was the perfect opportunity to post a couple of #Walking Squares. It is a quick walk along the 1/2 mile path to see cave dwellings and one other building that looks like the foundation of a home we might build today.
Curating to the End of the Month
Yesterday, this quote inspired me to curate efficiently.
“One of the worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all.”
–Brian Tracy
I made a list of things that had to be done, and prioritized them, which helped me curate my “stuff” Sunday when the sun shone. On Monday when I wrote this post, it was gray, cold, and windy. “Stuff” for the office lay uncurated in boxes in our master bedroom. However, it was a perfect day to write my blog post for Wednesday, which goes up on my priority list exponentially as the day approaches.
“Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.”
Julia Morgan
Many of you have commented that abandoned buildings are indeed art. I found this quote in Kirstin’s Loving Life post listed in the “More Ideas” section. As the quote suggests, this post of abandoned buildings shows examples of public art, so I’m posting this for Natalie’s PPAC/Weekend Coffee Share post today.
Challenges that Influenced WQW #46
In addition to Sunday Stills and Natalie’s PPAC/Weekend Coffee Share, this post is also influenced by the following challenges
- Changing Seasons: Touring my Backyard, Bush Boy’s World
- Cell Pic Sunday Most of the photos here are taken with either my iPhone 12s mini or my iPhone 6
- What’s Been on Your Calendar – a new challenge coming out in 2023 that incorporated Word of the Year and much more. This is a post about it. Donna, Deb, Jo, and Sue also host What’s on Your Bookshelf, which, along with Natalie Coffee Share, inspires me to read each week.
November 2022 Highlights
- This is my 10th post for this month.
- Both Vince and I had birthdays this month and celebrated well.
- I emptied the two-car garage enough that both cars fit comfortably, which means that I took a lot of “stuff” to the Goodwill store. I had to close my eyes and curate things into boxes and garbage bags and drive on. I couldn’t toy with the idea that something might come in handy later in life. 🙂
- Some things got curated into the trash. On Monday Vince needed the old extension cord I threw away on Sunday. I knew that was going to happen! In my defense, it only had a place to plug in a two-pronged plug.
- We celebrated Thanksgiving with strangers rather than at home.
- I have a new walking partner and she hustles me walking up and down stairs. I walked over 11,000 steps (not stairs) on at least two separate occasions. It was too cold and windy for a walk today.
- I gave up not eating sweets for the next two months.
- I finished the autobiography Katherine Johnson, My Remarkable Journey. She is one of the black female NASA mathematicians who plotted courses by hand for our space flights in the 60s and 70s. The movie “Hidden Figures” was based on her life. She lived to be 101 and took boxing lessons to stay in shape at age 88! What an inspiration!
- The movie “Where the Crawdads Sing” about an abandoned child is one of the best videos I saw this month.
- We decorated our Jimson house for Christmas to brighten up the gloomy gray day on Monday and to clean out some of our boxes.
- I received another email from someone telling me how they could improve my disorganized and error-ridden website. As I wrote this post and linked it to old ones, I corrected some of the glaring mistakes and wondered what in the world Grammarly and my brain were up to back then. I also wondered what I’m missing today that will stand out VIVIDLY to you now and later to me.
“Your website and needs immediate improvement on some of the major factors mentioned below:
– Less visibility for many competitive keyword phrases
Coby
– Errors that prevent your website from being indexed properly by search engines.
– Unorganized social media accounts.
– Shortage of content based back links.
– Less participation on social media portals.”
When I started blogging ten years ago, I didn’t know what half those bullet points meant. Now I know that they are what Brian Tracy might classify as doing a great job at something not worth doing.
If you blog for fun like I do, it is important to curate your blog for errors and to make your posts vivid and interesting. This pesky marketer doesn’t even mention the importance of visiting other bloggers and having a relationship that lasts over the years. Silly Coby.
Play Along with WQW
I hope you have not had an abandoned week. If you want to play along with Writer’s Quotes Wednesday, write a post about the topic of abandoned buildings, find a quote that you like, and link your post to my post.
Upcoming on Always Write
WQW Schedule until the end of the year.
- December 7: Water: Snow/Winter Wonderland – A challenge to design a new logo for WQ – I’m simplifying the name of the challenge to Wednesday Quotes for 2023.
- December 14: Food: Delicious Delights
- December 21: Holiday: Christmas or Winter Solstice
- December 28: Reflections on 2022/Writer’s Choice/ or YOUR WOTY Review Voting for the top design for 2023.
PPAC is now hosted by Natalie the Explorer. You can link your post directly to her Weekend Coffee Share blog post.
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107 responses to “WQW #46: Are Abandoned Buildings Compelling Art?”
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A very compelling discussion on old buildings as art, Marsha! I have a very soft spot for ruins in particular, so I really enjoyed this post. Of course, I love Montezuma’s Well very much.
P/S Happy belated birthday! May the year ahead bring much delight in exploration!
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Thank you for your wonderful compliment and birthday wish. I hope your wish for me comes true. I would love to have a year of delightful exploration. I hope you have a delightful year as well. 🙂
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Let’s us both have a good year ahead, Marsha! Merry Christmas!
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Yeah! Let’s do this!
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Throughout middle school and high school, my family and I would go on a roadtrip every summer. We were bound to see an abandoned building or an abandoned town. I found it fascinating because I wondered how long was this town around and why did people just get up and leave. I was imagining something more exciting and tall tale-like like a ghost or curse that drove them away. But it could be because the venue had served its purpose. I am sure it is cheaper to just abandon it and let nature do its thing.
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An abandoned town is a whole different story. Generally you are right, it’s purpose was served – mining lots of times. During the Dust Bowl people left because they couldn’t afford the taxes and their land wouldn’t produce, they couldn’t get away from the dust, so they walked away. What a traumatic time.
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Thanks, Ju-Lyn!
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Hi Marsha,
I don’t think I ever shared this story with you. It’s a Carrot Ranch 99-word piece but for this one I included some notes, because my 99 words are historical fiction based on both my photo and some facts I dug up.
Thought you might enjoy it. I do love our old barns around here.
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I enjoyed it. 🙂
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I think that they are and can be.
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I do too! 🙂
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I really enjoy photographing abandoned buildings, but I seldom go inside. Am I afraid a ghost might topple the structure on top of me? I think so. >grin<
I need to curate a bunch of stuff in three closets. Maybe this spring… hmmm… not likely.
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LOL, you are too busy having fun. Let’s trade lives for a bit!
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Hi Marsha
I found a few abandoned buildings on a recent trip in Hong Kong
https://travelswithali.com/2022/12/04/hong-kong-day-trip-to-cheung-chau-island/
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YAY!!! I’m coming right over. 🙂
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[…] There are many houses up in these hills and we were wondering how difficult it would be for the occupants to bring shopping up. Not just that but how furniture is delivered and how on earth they were built in the first place. There were also many abandoned buildings. […]
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I full on fabulous month Marsha. I just love the first photo of Hengst Barn. The other abandoned and derelict are so interesting. Thanks for joining in The Changing Seasons 🙂 🙂
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Thanks and thanks for hosting. 🙂 Have a great December!
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Keep warm 🙂
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We’re trying. 🙂
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Hi, Marsha – Abandoned Buildings is such a great theme to get our creative juices flowing. Thank you for mentioning #WBOYC and #WOYBSC. I greatly appreciate it!
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You are more than welcome. 🙂 It’s the least I can do.
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There’s something special about abandoned places, and buildings! Around here, there are still a lot of old houses (or ruins) from the famine times left in place, and while some people may not like it, I find it an interesting element that reminds of history, while being mixed with modern buildings and infrastructure. You reminded me that I should try to get to some of these to take some photos.
I also get a lot of those annoying marketing e-mails. As if I cared! I care mostly about having a nice design, writing what I enjoy sharing, and to connect with people. When I open my online shop I’ll care more about those things, but I still know much enough to do the work myself!
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You are going to open an online shop? How wonderful! I tried making money with my blog, and I know that is not my thing. I used Fine Art America for a while but I didn’t market very much or well. Another friend of mine did pretty well with her photos and drawings. I’m sure there are many venues for sharing your work.
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Yes, I’ve been studying graphic design in recent years and will start with opening a shop (or more, with different niches) to sell my designs printed on t-shirts and merch. The first one will be music-themed. When I get going with my photography again, it would be nice to sell cards, wall art and the likes too, we’ll see. I’ll use Pinterest primarily for marketing to begin with, and my sister will help me set up Google ads.
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How exciting, Susanne! Where did you study graphic design? How lucky you are to have a sister to help you with merchandising. Let me know when you get going with it.
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I’ve mostly studied in peace and quiet with courses at udemy.com, both theory courses and to learn Adobe software. This autumn I attended a 12 week course at a university in Dublin, it was super intense but I’ve learned tons and got some better confidence with it too. My sister works for a marketing company in Sweden and is licensed with Google-anything, so she’s a great help!
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That’s amazing. I love that learning Adobe software is part of your coursework. I’ve picked up knowledge piecemeal, but it would be wonderful to focus and take some courses online. I’m excited for you.
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Hi Marsha, What a great collection of abandoned buildings. I’d love to visit Montezuma Well National Monument. You’ve accomplished a lot in November. Thank you for your weekend coffee share and PPAC. Have a wonderful weekend!
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Thank you, Natalie. 🙂
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Hi Marsha, abandoned building is a great theme for a photograph prompt. You found quite an array of building. 👍
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I surprised myself! They’d make a great setting for one of your ghost stories.
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Loved this! Abandoned buildings are one of my favourite subjects to photograph. Excellent!
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Another photogenic score for abandoned buildings! 🙂
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Somehow abandoned buildings fascinates me, Marsha! Not for theghost hunting, but for the reasons that it was just left like that! So many stories there!
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Abandoned buildings are just so much more photogenic than newly built ones, especially if there is a door falling off or a roof partially caves in! I just love the look of them, it’s a photographic thing 😁
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So there we have it in a nutshell. It is a photographic thing! Score for the abandoned buildings. 🙂
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I love your collection. I would love to know the stories behind them! Can you imagine living there and the sand coming in day after day. It reminds me of the dust bowl in the 1930s.
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I would also like to know the story of every house. I can not imagine living in the dessert!..
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Living in the high desert here in Arizona does not seem like desert in the summer. We had so much rain during the monsoon season.
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Wow!
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These quotes are great Marsha…those photos….ooooo so cool. I feel like old buildings, whether abandoned or run down are fascinating. So full of questions. I loved the stories you shared about them.
https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2022/12/putting-fingers-to-keyboardwqwtheme.html
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Thank you so much, Kirstin. I had forgotten how many abandoned places I had visited.
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This was fun and funny, Marsha. I do love stumbling across old abandoned buildings. The history is so intriguing, especially in the ghost towns of AZ. And like others, 11,000 steps and no sweets? too funny. I walk that many steps so I CAN eat sweets. lol
I took my grandkids to Montezuma’s Well. It is such a nice, meandering walk, with so much information. Found it fascinating to truly be in the presence of a watering hole in the desert. And I can only imagine the wildlife that visits at night.
My grandson described an animal he saw shuffle into hiding, in the back of the cave. The docent confirmed a ringtail cat. And while they frequent the area, not too many people see them My handson, age 9 felt pretty important.
Glad you are settling to your new digs.
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Thanks, Donna. You misread my goals about sweets. I decided NOT to give them up until after the new year!!! LOL I do enjoy them too much. I did give them up for a while, but it made little difference in my weight. I like other food as well!
Imagine seeing a ringtail cat in one of the caves. Which one was that? Are they dangerous. Some people hiked down into the watering hole area. I didn’t feel that was a safe plan for me this year. I was huffing and puffing too much that day. Maybe another day. 🙂
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According to to the ranger, the ringtail are pretty recluse. And yes. down by the water. It was worth the hustle. I was more nervous about having my youngest grandson (4)along as he doesn’t have much fear and it was pretty steep. We survived. lol
Ahhh… sweets. Thank goodness. I would hate to think you would just have to stare at holiday sweets. lol.
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Bring them on! Then get me GOLO for Christmas!
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Hi Marsha, here’s mine;
http://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2022/12/01/sunday-snapshot-3-lahore-2/
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Saved from abandonment 🙂
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Thanks
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Thank you, my friend. 🙂
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There’s something fascinating about abandoned buildings! And Montezuma Well is such a cool place. I love the cliff dwellings and the 19th-century graffiti on the cave wall near the water.
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The graffiti must be in a different place, Janet, or my eyes are toast. I’ve been to Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot. Have you been there?
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I’ve been to both, and both are amazing.
The graffiti is in a cave down near the water. Basically follow the trail into the sink hole as far as it goes. It ends with water on one side and a small cave on the other.
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Okay. We didn’t do that. I’ll have a good reason for climbing down there! 🙂
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I mostly look at your posts through the Reader, and they look fine!
I seriously love your old building photos. There was a school for sale in a nearby city -I wanted to buy it so badly! The good news is that the developer who bought it has renovated but kept most of it intact.
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Oh, that’s wonderful. What a gift to the community! Thank you for your kind words about my blog. AFTER I published this post, Grammarly had inserted about 10 or 12 red lines under my proofread document. Most of the corrections were tiny things like commas, but I had spelled abandoned wrong once. The errors are real. I just don’t know why they don’t all show up the first time. I think I need to use Word or another platform to write my posts and them copy them to WP. The problem with that is the convenience of block editing and the fluidity of moving blocks without cutting and pasting. That technology is far superior to what is in a normal writing platform, in my opinion.
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Once I got used to it, I liked the block editing as well. I’m sure we all misspell or mis-comma something.
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I agree. We all do it. For me, as a retired teacher, it’s a form of pride and astonishment – how could I make sooooooo many mistakes??? LOL
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Wow that one picture looks like a painting Marsha. Lots of intrigue with old buildings and some are so eerie to me. Happy belated birthday to you and Vince.
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This made me laugh…. 🤣
“When I started blogging ten years ago, I didn’t know what half those bullet points meant. Now I know that they are what Brian Tracy might classify as doing a great job at something not worth doing.”
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It’s true, though, isn’t it. How many bloggers do you know that honestly care about SEO or even key words. We write what we think and feel, not what some search engine might find interesting. 🙂 I spent my valuable time over the years learning a lot about all of the things my emailer mentioned and a lot more, only to realize that all they did was make me nervous and sometimes irritated because I couldn’t understand the jargon to do something I was doing for fun. LOL
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So true.. I hear it all and sorta try maybe.. 🤣
That’s how much I follow it. Someone said just today. This was a short post for you. I want to see 2,000 words next post. I hope you are ok. 🤣
cute and well intended but i have a life.. i think.. or is it just blogging.
We’re a bit cra cra the time it takes. ❣️
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You write what comes out. That is the joy of blogging. I used to pay attention to the number of words I wrote. I don’t do that any more. It’s one of those things that Brian Tracy would say is not worth the time it takes to do. There are times I need to watch, when I am writing to a prescription – a form poem or a short story limited to 99 words no more no less. Other than that, I don’t worry about it too much. 🙂 Why be cra cra if we don’t have to be? 🙂 Have a wonderful day, Cindy.
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I soooo agree with you Marsha.. You and I have enough on our plates and you said this well. No cra cra .. life is cra cra enough. 🤣 Thanks and you too!! ❤️
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🙂 xxx hugs!
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GREAT photos. I love old buildings. The detritus of civilization. Nature is always standing by to reclaim the earth.
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Thank goodness! It does keep us busy trying to tame it, though. A friend of mine had a second home in a Phoenix. they sold it because during the monsoons while they were up here in cooler weather, the plants grew by feet daily instead of inches! They would go home to a jungle after six months.
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You photograph abandoned buildings well, Marsha! I can’t seem to find even one to photograph–you have quite the collection! I’m sure your ghost hunts and other activities provided some vivid memories for you. That very first image looks vivid with all the colors and light in it. It has been a busy week for us and now we are in a major winter storm. Hans just measured the snow on our deck table and it shows 10 inches has fallen and it’s still coming down. I think we’ll see at least a foot of snow by the end of the day. Our outdoor furniture was abandoned in the snow and it looks a body is laying on the chaise, all covered with snow, LOL!
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The body will make an interesting picture. You ought to stick some old shoes at the end of the chaise, toes up and let the snow do the rest of the work! Have fun playing in it all. 🙂
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Hey good idea!
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I love photographing abandoned buildings too… although there are pretty hard to find where I live (barns, too 🙂 ).
I LOLd at the double negative: “I gave up not eating sweets for the next two months.” I give up not eating sweets all the time 🙂
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I wish I could. I’d weigh 500 pounds if I ate all the sweets I wanted! Either that or I’d have to exercise 26 hours a day. 🙂
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Have you ever found any abandoned barns in your area? I laughed when I thought about how fruitless our search was for abandoned barns. Then I wondered why we even consider them compelling along with all their rusted parts. I still don’t know why we find them so interesting other than we can usually go inside of them and see what is there. The other thing I wondered is how long it is before a building is considered abandoned. And can it be considered abandoned before anyone occupies it or is it just an abandoned project?
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What a great collection of abandoned buildings! I’ve decided to concentrate on the moments BEFORE the abandonment happens … https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/what-will-the-future-hold/
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Thank you, Elke. Yours is a compelling story. I wonder whether the occupants will have their building repaired or move on. I guess it depends on how badly it is damaged, who is going to pay for repairs, and how safe the occupants feel living there. Some places don’t make safe homes – neighborhoods, geological conditions – like cliffs or flood or fire zones. Yet people continue to rebuild homes in strange places. Great post, my friend. Thanks for linking!
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You are so right about this being the perfect post for October Marsha LOL! Some very spooky spots here – the perfect tour for someone into ghost hunting!!
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I actually did go ghost hunting at a State Historic Park in California led by the Park Ranger. The town was abandoned but preserved along with the ghost stories. It made for an interesting evening, but I didn’t see any ghosts.
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It sounds like you and Vince are still very busy. Good luck with the decluttering.
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LOL. It is a hopeless task, I think. We need a house a few thousand feet bigger, but then it would be a museum – perfect for my word of the year – curate. Have a great week. Any great Christmas plans?
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Spending the day with our darling boy – can’t get better than that.
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I would agree. Send me pics and videos!
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I will. 🙂
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Yay! Thank Lauren for letting you share your treasure with me. 🙂 I watch and enjoy every photo and video and show them to Vince. Thanks for being such a great friend.
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Oh, fantastic! Abandoned buildings have always set my pulse racing! Like the one shown here: https://suejudd.com/2017/06/24/postcards-from-my-past-6-some-eerie-ruins-in-mid-wales/
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I love your choice of an abandoned building, Sue. Fabulous! Thanks for joining in this week. 🙂
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Pleasure!
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oh these are fantastic, and I am loving my squares in particular 😀 feeling loved rather than abandoned!
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Your people love you, Becky B. We don’t want you to feel abandoned. I had to take it easy on squares this month due to our busy schedule, but I thought about it. Have a wonderful last day today. 🙂
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thanks Marsha, and I am so pleased that you have been busy as that means things are good 🙂
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Yes, it does. Keeping busy keeps our minds active and that is so important. With your vibrant personality and love of life, I am sure you are blazing a new trail, making new friends, strengthening old ones, and learning to smile and laugh again because that is part of who you are. Busy is a small part of that. There is another part that comes from spending time with your thoughts, memories, AND PHOTOS and enjoying the wonder in our pasts. Love you and think of you often, Becky B.
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When you come across an abandoned prison, asylum and cemetery you’ve found the trifecta of FEAR
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Especially if the trifecta is all in one location. I don’t know too many places like that, but I haven’t explored for them, either. Maybe that website I shared would show me where I could find them. I hadn’t thought of a cemetery because it’s not a building, but I have some great abandoned cemetery pictures. Maybe I’ll share them next October. 🙂
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That’s funny you mentioned cemeteries do not have buildings Marsha as I just finished a few seconds ago reading this over on Andy’s site.
https://skylid.travel.blog/2022/11/30/a-new-forest-church/
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I stand corrected, Wayne. My shots of the Deleware church have a cemetery that I ignored in posting these pictures. The missions usually have cemeteries, though they are not abandoned in California, at least. the one in Deleware definitely was even though there is restoration work going on now.
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seems like a perfect spot to hang around If one was a ghost and confused!
I asked Andy If that Church (he got married in it) was haunted and he said not that he was aware of.
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LOL I’m glad. That might mean that his witnesses were not legit!
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