... and Argue Road...
... we noticed some things in decline ...
March 8, 2015
Out in the hinterlands of Wisconsin.
Past Titus Lane...
... and Argue Road...
... we noticed some things in decline ...
... and Argue Road...
... we noticed some things in decline ...
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Nice skies!
We've got 400 ft ceilings in So. TX today - probably up to 10M.
...and it's National Clock Molestation Day, again. AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!
My wife and I see this all over Texas and Oklahoma; aging parents finally die, and the kids, having moved to the city decades earlier, abandon the old home place.
Good pictures.
...aging parents finally die, and the kids, having moved to the city decades earlier, abandon the old home place.
The kids are coasting on heir.
No Jonquils visible yet? Wisconin hinterland in winter land needs yellow flowers popping up everywhere overnight.
Good pictures, sad pictures.
There are many beautiful houses and farms in this area. These aren't typical. I think it's mostly that money isn't sunk into the project of tearing them down. Like many people, I find ruins interesting and good for photographic purposes.
In other words, there's nothing to be sad about. It's no sadder than old people.
I like this one in the same series. The strapped in subject strikes an obamian head pose while the signage rises erect, seamily attached to the vehicle.
I don't get overly sentimental about old, decrepit houses, but it's a little sad. At one time, the house was new, and represented the hopes and dreams of a family. Now, who knows, things may be even better, you just don't know. I see a lot of them when I travel through central WI. I used to assume that whoever left the homes did so involuntarily, but there are lots of reasons, chief among them may be that razing the old place just hasn't made it to the top of the list, yet.
Like many people, I find ruins interesting and good for photographic purposes.
My father had a passion for photographing shipwrecks. They are cool because they mostly hidden from plain sight. Given the vast expanses of oceans, lakes, and rivers still unexplored, and the number of known wrecks never found or even looked for, there is a future there. One of the best and most tragic stories I ever heard was the about Emperor Caligula's ships at Lago di Nemi: link
hey, is that the same Titus we know here?
I don't get overly sentimental about old, decrepit houses, but it's a little sad.
There is a scene with Bruce Dern in "Nebraska" (2013) where he revisits the abandoned farmhouse of his childhood. He starts to relive some touching moments but then sloughs it all off.
Titus was Paul's "true son in a common faith" in the address lines to the book of Titus.
The Emperor's Pleasure Barges were for going up river to make stops at estates where the Divine Emperor would command the wives and daughters of wealthy Romans to be brought aboard for sex. The Romans were not shy about sex. It was considered an honor, the only risk being the Emperor might really like one and then he wanted the husband eliminated so he could make her another concubine at his Palace.
Laslo is probably Italian.
So the third picture is the HQ for the public employee unions, right?
My life story. Fag rural moving to the big city. It's really all kids story.
Move to the city and make money!
My sisters made it though. One working at Cuna Mutual married to CFO at Cuna. The other is a Director at the State ready to retire in one year; married to a HVAC millionaire.
tits
Do you know roads are named after my mom and dad in Lodi?
It's amazing how much these photos look like they were taken in Tioga County, PA around the Wellsboro area.
I think silos are going out of fashion. They are being replaced by those piles of feed under sheets of white plastic that you see around.
http://ocj.com/2013/11/the-changing-landscape-of-dairy-feed-storage/
People will keep them around anyway, without maintenance, like they do with those old-style farm windmills.
A lot family farms have been sold to corporate farmers. They don't need the buildings, just the land.
The previous appearance of that declining house on the blog is here.
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