Extra Pic spam... empty buildings and empty space.

[curiouswombat]

I mentioned yesterday that I had taken some pictures of scenery, but would leave posting until today. They were taken last week, Wednesday I think, on a warm day that was not quite as clear and sunny as most this past few weeks. I was travelling from Port Erin, in the South, to St John's - by the more coastal route, known as The Sloc road.

I stopped to take some pictures of a deserted farmhouse, and then took a few more along the way. It is surprising, sometimes, how much empty space there is on our small island.



So - these pictures are of an abandoned farmhouse in an area known as Lingague.




As you can see, it is past redemption -




And I took this because I liked the lines and shapes-



These two are simply taken in the hedge where I stood to take the first picture - I'm guessing it is clover, but I'm not sure - it really was this colour -



And with added bugs...



In the field alongside there were two horses - this one was more interested in the camera than the other one -



I think you can get an idea of the day from that one - warm, but a bit grey.

A few fields away there is another farmhouse, still inhabited. You can see that it is built to the same, traditional, pattern as the abandoned one. This is, in effect, what the derelict would have looked like maybe twenty years ago -



Oh - and a foxglove just coming into flower -



I drove a little further up the road - and I do mean up - it rises slowly, climbing higher and higher; it got brighter as I climbed, too. These are taken where I stopped to eat a, rather late, lunch. As you can see, it is a remarkably empty - you can just make out the line of the road climbing up and away -



The sea is just over the edge of this hill -



And finally - just beside the wall I perched on for lunch - simply because I liked the effect -





Taking pictures reminds me how fortunate I am to live somewhere where it is still possible to be so alone, in such beautiful (well, to me) emptiness.



Oh - and... today the weather broke - about 3pm, whilst I was in clinic at the hospital, unable to get home to take in the washing I'd hung out at lunch time... I've just left it out; it'll dry again, sometime, I guess!

Also I must share D-d's text message from Italy - "Ate Pizza. Saw Colosseum, Forum, Vatican and THE POPE!! Going to Pisa and Florence. Getting on really well with everyone." Sounds good!

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[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

No farmhouses in Colorado is older than the late 1860s. Durango was incorporated in the 1880s and was a railroad town. I will not be able to find any old abandoned stone farmhouses, but I will try to take some photos of "old" farmhouses.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh, please do.