the house at the orchard

[low_delta]

As I mentioned, this past weekend, we went to my mom's family reunion. My uncle took a few of us to the orchard, and the house where they used to live. It's long abandoned.

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The back of the house.

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Uncle Cecil coming around the front of the house. Note the front door behind the vines. And the honey bee hive on the upper left of the window.

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I won't say whose butt this is, but this is how you get into the house.

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This was in the ceiling of the kitchen. No clue how it got there or remained.

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I went upstairs, and Linda and Mark said there was a bird in the other room, and I should go look. Maybe I could identify it. It was a young turkey vulture. It was a little skittish, so it made its way over to the window. I went back downstairs and outside, so it popped back in the room.

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Then it flew to the opposite window, where it sat for a bit, then decided that the people at the bottom of the stairs were too annoying, and it flew off.

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The shed behind the house.

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The barn was in pretty good shape.

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The goal my uncles set up in the barn. They were Hoosiers.

Comments

[emschin.livejournal.com]

I really like picture #9 where the inside of the house is dark and we are looking out the window at the nature scene.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I find abandoned houses creepy in a cool sort of way.
:)
The shoe is really weird.

[northernsnokat.livejournal.com]

It is sad to me to see someone's memory in disrepair!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Despite that, my mom and her sister enjoyed the visit. Her sister hadn't seen the place since she was little.

[mellary4.livejournal.com]

I agree with my Mom about the picture with the window above the sink. I imagine the people doing the dishes and looking out on the beautiful scene years ago.
I'm also very curious about that shoe!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised there isn't a bird's nest in it.

[specificocean.livejournal.com]

I always find it strange (and somehow sad) that a house gets ABANDONED.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too.