2 posts tagged “old”
Yay! New Photo Safari! I love these types of exercises, They teach me a lot. So here are 4 different things, Stacked and with only Natural light. I may be called out for cheating, I have a whole wall of windows. Haha!
I am also putting this in the new group "Favorite Things" because Old Vintage things ARE my favorite things! This is why I live in a home about to burst at the seems.
The Syrups, I have picked up at yard sales, none are over $4 (the $4 one is dated from 1898)
The books all came from a recent sale, 35 cents a piece, I have about 25 of them.
The teacups and saucers, well that blue kills me, I love forget-me-nots too.
Then the wooden boxes are from the 1940's and 50's. You were to keep letters from your sweetheart in them my grandmother has told me.
While I was walking along the railroad tracks one day, balancing myself on the rail, looking at the field on the other side. You cannot see this from the road below. There was this huge open space right along the tracks, and a couple of abandoned buildings and a lot of farm equipment rusting out there too. This building I saw and tried to zoom my camera in on, I could not figure out what it was made of. So I decided the next day on my walk I was going to knock on the front door and ask if I could take some pictures in their back yard.
I knocked on the door the next day, my heart pounding, my feet creaking the old wooden porch boards. A man answered the door, he had long scraggly hair and his eyebrows were tattooed on along with tattoo eye lids. and he had an enormous smile on his face. I introduced myself and asked if he would not mind if I went and took pictures in his backyard. He asked why, I said I am teaching myself photography and his backyard is very interesting. Especially the old building. He said OH, the battery house. Is that what it is made of? Batteries? He said yes. In the early 20's and 30's it had been a battery manufacturing shop that went out of business when the depression hit. He said that they were not allowed to build on this lot until they cleaned it up, back in the day they would just dump the lead and battery acid right into the ground. Now he is stuck with millions of dollars in clean up bills. All very interesting. The batteries that make the walls of the building are not made of plastic, I think it is asbestos. I was shocked to see green beans and other veggies growing out there. A huge apple orchard too.
There was so much stuff out there just rotting into the poison soil. So here is the Battery house and a teeny bit of history. : )
I knocked on the door the next day, my heart pounding, my feet creaking the old wooden porch boards. A man answered the door, he had long scraggly hair and his eyebrows were tattooed on along with tattoo eye lids. and he had an enormous smile on his face. I introduced myself and asked if he would not mind if I went and took pictures in his backyard. He asked why, I said I am teaching myself photography and his backyard is very interesting. Especially the old building. He said OH, the battery house. Is that what it is made of? Batteries? He said yes. In the early 20's and 30's it had been a battery manufacturing shop that went out of business when the depression hit. He said that they were not allowed to build on this lot until they cleaned it up, back in the day they would just dump the lead and battery acid right into the ground. Now he is stuck with millions of dollars in clean up bills. All very interesting. The batteries that make the walls of the building are not made of plastic, I think it is asbestos. I was shocked to see green beans and other veggies growing out there. A huge apple orchard too.
There was so much stuff out there just rotting into the poison soil. So here is the Battery house and a teeny bit of history. : )
