Old District 10 Schoolhouse.
When I first saw this place in the late 1960's it was a residence. Legend had it that the old caretaker was the occupant. The building has been unused since the early 70's and will likely come down someday - no one can think what to do with it. There is a second schoolhouse no more than a mile away as the crow flies. It's in better shape, still has a bell tower and is used for various functions; I was in it once to give blood.
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For various personal reasons I have not been posting many photos. So now I have a backlog that i'm just going to start throwing out there. I encourage you to ignore them because, frankly I haven't been taking care of my reciprocal end of the bargain; i'm not reading much of what others are posting.
"The Realm of the Oracle" Varujan Boghosian - 1989, Toledo Museum of Art.
I was drawn to this as soon as I saw it, but was mildly disappointed when I checked the museum catalog and found out that the case it's in isn't part of the work.
"The Realm of the Oracle" Varujan Boghosian - 1989, Toledo Museum of Art.
I was drawn to this as soon as I saw it, but was mildly disappointed when I checked the museum catalog and found out that the case it's in isn't part of the work.
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Remains of the barn where my mother lives; looks like they are trying to set up some sort of outdoor sitting area for the seniors - who can make it over here. Well, they didn't sell the stones at least. I'm sure a fortune could have been made off them. It seems smaller inside than it did outside.
Part of a iron hinge driven into the stone.
What the barn looked like in 2013.
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Some weeks ago i almost drove into and, never came out of this chuck hole*. However, as i swerved, i noticed the bricks and came back and took a picture the next day. A true photographer has to put aside the "what do people think i'm doing in the middle of the road with a camera? sensation". I never quite get there, i'm self conscious; that's why my best shots are in the woods.
* Chuck holes, no one calls them chuck holes anymore; too unsophisticated? Now it's pot holes, i feel like 'pot holes' came from a New York consulting firm. There's no logic to pot hole, how did a pot make a hole? (Wood)chucks can make holes.
On Wallace Lake, temp 16F.
What i'm sayin' is that it was cold and bright and it's hard to take a decent picture when you can't see it - literally, 'point and shoot'
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likely, my last snow pictures because:
Winter has lost it's glamour; it's old, it's cold. The past few days I've been out trying to chop through the several inches of solid ice in the drive; who needs that?
These aren't new pictures anyway
The back of that very red brick building, and you could call this an architectural shot anyway.
These aren't new pictures anyway
The back of that very red brick building, and you could call this an architectural shot anyway.
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Snowed again last night, i don't know what happened, until three weeks ago we were having a mild winter. Now it's a different game. Yesterday was messy with temps close to thirty and lots of wet snow. I got out of work at 3:30 AM and it was colder (20') and had snowed several more inches. I got up at 7 AM to clear the drive so #1daughter&son can get out the drive - 'harry has left an hour earlier but her vehicle can get through it - but by now the temperature has dropped to 3'! So I saw a sunrise for the first time in a long time, i didn't evaporate or anything; it was nice.
But the pictures i wanted to show ( are here: )
end of the line on a snowy day
A walk in the park took us to this part of the trail made up of the roadbed of a deserted interurban line. Built little more than century ago, these lines disappeared as quickly as they first appeared. Vanishing so completely that most people have no idea they ever existed.
