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Surrounded by towering trees and out of control weeds, a sagging barn lives out its days in a quiet regalness unappreciated by almost everyone that briefly considers it.
Someone with sharp vision might spot an old pickup rusting away beside it. Some farmer took a last trip to the side of a barn where with a lingering turn of the key it died and the driver’s door shut for a final time.
There’s a good chance hardly anyone is still around for whom either the barn or pickup was something they relied on daily to run and maintain the farm and livestock.
Tools, machinery and farm buildings have a finite life. Equipment that once brightly reflected the sun when a farmer had it delivered to the farm for the first time, soon is replaced by larger, faster and more expensive machinery and the former eventually sits in the grove gathering rust.
Many of us who were once strong, young farms kids with bronzed skin, muscled arms and a full head of unruly hair have grown old too. All around us in a busy world we are reminded both of our former youth and our present age.
If we are fortunate in our dwindling years, we have a ‘pickup’ near us, one that understands the battles of aging as well as we do. I was reminded this week of the privilege it is to live a long life with someone you chose decades ago to walk life’s journey with on this planet.
I watched as a doctor gently rotated my wife’s arms seeking to diagnose debilitating pain she has been experiencing the last couple of weeks. He was looking at her as she is now but as he dealt with her, my mind wandered to a strong young woman holding our first born, of countless nights she slept little as she tended to our growing family, of thousands of loads of washing she did and way too many meals over the years prepared for our family and frequent guests.
I’m pretty much mirroring the condition of this barn and pickup now but am as content as I ever have been knowing I have a companion who walks with me as together we go through the rest of our rusting years.
(Photographed by Isanti, MN)
Old truck wedged into a small landscaped space in an upscale home and garden shop in Cambria, California.
Print Contest Entry
Subject: Rust
Award: 1st Place
PSA Open Category Entry 4/2020
This is part of a horse sculpture in the Harris Sculpture Garden on the campus of North Central Michigan College in Petoskey, Michigan.
The sculpture is called "J-bolt and The Ghost Rider" by Dixie Jewett.
Late afternoon outdoor lighting, hand-held, elbows tucked in knees, knees crouched, Canon Rebel T1i with Canon Compact-Macro Lens EF 50mm
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
During my drive through some back roads of Iowa, I came across a collection of rusted farm equipment.
It was interesting to walk among them.
J'ai pris cette lame de couteau bien rouillée en fragrant délit alors qu'elle voulait se faire passer pour une feuille parmi celles du Bambou Bouddha de mon jardin. Difficile pour elle, vue sa taille, sa rigidité et les couleurs qu'elle propose. Enfin bref, elle a dû se faire plaisir un temps soit peu. #Macro #MacroMondays #Rust
...a dilapidated old Triumph (I think TR3) I have driven past countless times on the road to North Devon. In the background is an almost equally sad Jaguar XJS.
Edro III Cyprus
The Sierra Leone-flagged EDRO III ran aground off Pegeia on 8 December 2011 in heavy seas, during a voyage to Rhodes, from Limassol, Cyprus with a cargo of plasterboard. At the time of the accident, the ship had nine crew members - seven Albanians and two Egyptians. The crew were rescued and airlifted to the safety of Paphos by a local British Military helicopter.
The EDRO III weighs about 2,345 tons and is over 80 meters in length. According to Cyprus Marine Environment Protection Association CMEPA, the ship is empty of all cargo and fuel oil and rests on the sea rocks at an 11-12 degree angle. Embarking on the ship is no longer permitted as it is dangerous. Together with Germany's CIMEXTA Vessel Salvage Company, the task of safe removal of all diesel, hydrocarbons and marine pollutants onboard the vessel, and to watertight the hull was awarded to a Cypriot marine salvage company.
Bellaire Bridge
Benwood, West Virginia
The bridge was constructed over 18 months starting in June 1925. Closed to traffic on May 1, 1991
A close up of some of the detail on the great grain elevator I discovered in Fontana, KS over the weekend. I've got more from this rusty and crusty find.
Rusting Classic Trucks at the Motor Transport Museum in Campo, San Diego with the Milky Way rising up behind them.
10 frames stacked for the sky and blended with one long exposure at 66 seconds for the foreground.
Gears on the remains of the Steam Donkey on the edge of Monarch Lake, Arapaho National Forest, Colorado. The Steam Donkey is a machine that was used to move lumber down to the lake, from where it moved to the town of Monarch, now buried beneath Lake Granby.
A bit of information about Monarch is here:
www.grandcountyhistory.com/category/monarch
(click on the link under "Monarch Articles")