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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)
I made a great find of old cars yesterday. This 1957 Chev Bel Air is just one of many old classics tucked away on an acreage about half way between Lacombe, Alberta and Stettler, Alberta. This was one of my favorites to shoot because I found the autumn colors really complemented the blue car.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends...Have a safe and wonderful weekend, everyone!
A rusted cleat on the docks of Newport, Rhode Island.
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From the bumper guards, light fixtures and mirror placements, this looks to be around 1958 Anglia, but I am not sure. I am sure that it is rusty, and in bad shape.
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Troy may barely qualify as a rust belt city geographically, but it certainly does historically. I wanted to frame two of Troy's coolest late 19th century buildings together- the Gasholder building in the foreground, and the distant "Fortress of Shoddy" in the background.
Old truck wedged into a small landscaped space in an upscale home and garden shop in Cambria, California.
If you were to arrive at Truro by water - this is the view that would greet you . Taken from one of The Enterprise Boats boat tours from Trelissick Gardens you can see this pile opposite the Sunny Corner area .
an old engine in telford, rusting away. it reminds me of optimus prime from Transformers....... rusting away because he has no more energon cubes left
my 3 year old son saw this picture and commented "the choo choo train looks sad" which I suppose rusting away there, it kind of does look sad.......
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Manufacturer Dr Pepper Snapple Group
Introduced 1949
Sun Drop, also marketed as Sundrop, is a citrus-flavored soda produced by Dr Pepper Snapple Group. It has a yellowish-green color imparted by Yellow 5. Among soft drinks, it is known for its high caffeine content (63 mg per 12 oz can, 9 mg higher than a 12 oz can of Mountain Dew, but not as much as Vault with 70.5 mg per 12 oz can). Orange juice is an ingredient in the drink, and remaining pulp matter from the orange juice provides some of the soft drink's taste and appearance.
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Rusted valve, standing loose and connected to nothing, on an abandoned parking lot.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
28 May 2020.
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