© 2012 Michael Fiveson
A log home sits in the Wyoming sun stuffed to the rafters with old junk. Once a proud home to settlers, it now has been reduced to a rubbish heap. Still, the beautiful shell remains, and hints at a time long ago.
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I like it a lot! I don’t know why. 🙂
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It has its own symmetry, I think. Thank you.
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It has a lot of windows and very fancy fence posts.
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The posts are falling away, surrendering to time.
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Ohhh, I’d like to know the history of this one.
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coon skin caps, muskets, a small school house for kids of all ages, bears, Native Americans wondering what will happen to them…..
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Another 100 years…
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Or more….
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Really interesting one. I can’t quite make out what the letters are above the house number. I have to wonder what it looked like when it was brand new.
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I can’t quite make those letters out either. I bet it was stunning and smelled great too.
Thank you.
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Great shot, Mike, so glad you are able to share it! The detail here is fantastic–nice going, yonder boy!!
The ‘sun porch’ addition is intriguing, as is the address number and the indistinguishable signage above it. Must have been quite a comfortable place to live back in the day.
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Yeah, it is a reasonably sharp image and it looks like the sun porch was an addition. You are right, in its time it was probably quite a lovely home. I wonder if one could clean it up and make it livable again. Yonder boy would live there 🙂
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I thought I might have first dibs! Shucks!!
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The pack rat in me wants to go through that junk. LOL The 416 and the mailbox make me wonder if they still get mail, even just junk.
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Junk mail! What a concept. I am thinking that if you go in that home you will not be alone, and I don’t mean humans.
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you find some neat places!
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Thanks Derrick. I look for them.
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I really like this one. I’m guessing closing in the porch made it usable in the winter. : )
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Noodles! And there are some winters in Wyoming. Cold enough to allow a couple to stay in for an extended period of time, living off possum stew and each other.
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And each other… that made me smile.
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I think the sign says Elbert Cooper – do you think this might be him http://www.death-record.com/d/n/Elbert-Cooper?
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On that list there is one Elbert Cooper who apparently died in Evanston, Wyoming, which is on the western edge of the state. His life span is about right so maybe it was him. You are EllaDee, chief detective. Well done!!
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This has to be one of your best photographs ever!
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Thanks Marielba. I like it quite a bit too.
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I imagine all of the hardwork that went into the fence around it and the roof above it. And there it stands slowly losing both pickets and shingles. Wearing out on its own. Such a great picture, well composed. Great treasure with lots of lost history.
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Thank you very much. Yes, you see what I see.
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Ahhh, fantastic find! I love this one!
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Thanks Egghead.
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Oh i have been away a while! And in my absence you have done some wonderful work. I love this picture! So many half formed stories spring to mind.
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There you are!
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*waves* Hi ya!
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