A field guide to Ontario's forgotten places, weird destinations, folklore, legends, and curious history.
Flickr: Nude in Ruins, Factories, Decay Buildings and Empty Places
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Flickr: Urbex and Rural Decay
I don’t understand the allure, other than the idea of putting your damsel in distress. That I can understand, only my damsel would not be a woman. Most of these are women, nude in urban and rural ruins.
We drove by this building today and I noticed a website is now up for a group trying to save it.
http://www.hillsdalesimcoehouse.com/
It`s a sad thing to explore an abandoned site and find what is left of a garden. Once planned out, nurtured now vacated and forgotten. Sometimes there isn`t much left to ever know it had been a garden. Only the perennials and a few biennials (which grow from their own seeds) can stand fast against the wild and ready weedsé native plants.… Read the rest
I have a fair weather hobby, rural exploration. I take photos of abandoned farm houses here in Ontario. I moderate (somewhat) a group on Flickr, called Ontario Rural Ruins, if you would like a look at the photos from myself and others. Many people look for spookiness and creepy ghostly hauntedness in the houses. People take the photos and add elements to them to bring out a feeling of spookiness even.… Read the rest
I had a coffee date with a guy who has an interest in the paranormal and the supernatural. Things like ghosts, the Loch Ness Monster (known as Kempenfelt Kelly in the Barrie area or cryptozoology to the scientifically bent in general). I was looking forward to meeting him. I’m also interested in those things, not so much in ghosts though.… Read the rest
Visited this house today. It was insulbrick and red brick on different sides. I’m not sure if the insulbrick was there first, seemed it may have been. Now the grapevines are taking over.
The CopySix blog has a really great post about urban exploration, the end of civilization and why those things interest some people, like myself. I wrote a comment, trying to put into words why I like the old, abandoned farm houses so much.
… Read the restFor me it’s something about the people who built the places and how they had so much promise, hope, potential and now are left to the elements.
I like the way this photo looks. I took it to get a closer look at whatever that is in the field behind the shed. I think it’s a car. Anyone looking for a ride?
