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In the middle of a bean field sits an old beautiful home. Now abandoned and in rapid decline, this home speaks of generations past and the lives that have moved on. If you can make this image large, look in the bottom front window, right pane.
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It is not totally abandoned is it. There seems to be at least 3 ‘living’ there still.
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Good eye!
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You may enjoy this – It is a little more difficult to see, so I circled it in the 2nd image
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Well that is interesting for sure. Thanks for the link.
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I still can’t see ’em, but at least now I’ve got an idea what I’m looking for!
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My wife sees nothing as well. I am packed and ready for the mother ship, although I’m not sure I really need the bathing suit.
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The bathing suit will come in handy while simmering in the large crockpot.
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And I thought they wanted me for my mind!
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A reminder that structures house more than bodies. That one image really takes on the facial structure. Great shot.
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Yes it does and I like that others see the same things I do. Thank you.
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Interesting . . . I was wondering about the comment “brick home”. It looks like a thin brick facade, not actual brick, which I would imagine would last much, much longer. Almost looks like thick wallpaper with a brick design. The interesting thing is that’s siding underneath.
As for the pane . . . another case of pareidolia? Or am I missing something?
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Ok, it’s not a brick home. And yes, I probably do have pareidolia because I am always seeing things. Apparently the people in my comment thread who also see it have the same thing. You mean that’s not a man on the moon?
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That’s a scarecrow on the moon.
On the glass, it looks like what Groucho Marx . . . if Groucho Marx had gone rouge and turned into a demented ax-wielding murderer.
Or a bunny; it’s hard to tell. No, I’m going with Groucho.
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Lol, I liked Groucho. And his brother Karl was interesting too.
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amazing what light refraction mixed with reflecton of the tree close to it will produce when photographed on the correct angle…..demented alien creature is what came to mind when I looked at the enlarged photo…another nice old home, rich with history if only the walls could talk.
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No doubt you are correct, and thank you for the time and the comment.
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Looks like a scary Halloween mask in that window. Very cool!
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Since I have that picture saved, I can make it larger than wordpress allows and there are 4 figures in that window. Buhaahaauuuhaa!!
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So sad to see such beautiful old homes abandoned and deteriorating like that, with nothing but your ghosts and aliens to inhabit them.
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They are not mine Gunta, but spirits who would have a connection to the property. If they were mine they would be robbing banks for me.
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Ahhh, dear Mike, you take me far too literally. 😉
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I’ll take you any way I can get you.
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You are such an incorrigible flirt, dear Mike… I bet some ladies just love that!
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Who me?
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Ha! I can’t tell you how many times I enlarged that image before I figured it out. Nice work. The first question that popped into my head, though, was did you go in??? My dad used to drive us around in the country and if we came upon an abandoned structure, let us go in and roam around. Crazy! It was fun, though, to make up the story about who lived there and what happened to make them leave. Too bad someone doesn’t restore that one. She looks like she was quite lovely in her day!!
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Hi Lisa. I did not go in for 2 reasons. First I was carefully walking through some farmer’s bean field and did not think that lingering was a great idea and I also was scared of that house. I got fairly close, and that was close enough!
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It’s fairly decent of the entities to live in an abandoned house in stead of sharing their afterlife in inhabited homes.
And very smart of you to stay at a safe distance. They might like you so much that they would accompany you and move on.
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You are right about all of that. I am smarter than I look:)
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I see another eerie image in the window. But I’m one of those nut cases who sees faces in almost any surface. Marble, stone, wood, you name it. Sometimes they are scary.
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Oh me too. Everywhere, especially windows. We will be chums in the asylum.
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Oh no. Nurse Ratched…
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One of my all time favorite movies. Have you ever seen King of Hearts?
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No, but I just looked it up. I think I would fit right in with that group. I’d love to see it.
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I saw it a few times when I was in my 20’s and, or 30’s.Which means in the late 1800’s. Seriously, It was good at the time, not sure what it would feel like now.
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I see an alien face. Maybe you should take photos of the paranormal and open up a anew blog, the X Mike Files. 🙂
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So I can’t be Mike anymore if I am X Mike. How about the paranormal adventures of old Mike?
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Very nice photo. I always pass these homes and think of who might have lived there and wonder why they just sit empty and decay…
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It doesn’t take too long for the wood to be so rotten as to be beyond a cost effective repair. Factor in old electric, plumbing, etc and it becomes cost prohibitive.
But the idea of who lived in these places and what was life like is intriguing for sure. Thank you.
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I see 3 face images, 1 on the left which is the largest. The one in the middle is just a side view of a face and the third one is a small image in the bottom R corner. Great Capture…
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We see the same thing. People think I’m a lunatic.
Thank you.
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You’re welcome…They just can’t see…:)
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It looks like it was a beautiful place in its day. I’m sure it’s a bit spooky at night.
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I’ll never be there at night, but I bet you are right.
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As this is a faux brick house, I’d suggest the ‘beasties’ be faux too! 😉
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Fair enough.
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I would love to remodel a place like this. wow!
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That makes one of us.
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I didn’t see the three faces in the pane at first, only the old man in the dark underneath them, but I see them now that I’ve looked again, how very unobservant I am. Nice shot, but what a shame to have to abandon that house, it makes me wonder what happened to the inhabitants.
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My best guess is they got old and couldn’t maintain the house. My second best guess is they built another home on the same property somewhere (large farm) and lived happily ever after. Hi Lorna.
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It’s fake brick siding. Isn’t it funny how folks wanted to cover that wonderful and very well done ship-lap wood siding? 🙂
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Yes, it is fake brick and it is interesting that it was done that way. Probably took away some of the maintenance required on the wood siding. Kind of like aluminum siding in that regard.
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I see it! Have you been back, seen it again??
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Hi Sylver. No I have not been back. Maybe next summer. Good to see you again.
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Mike, whenever I see one of these old homes I like to think about what the family must have felt that first day when it was finally finished. Wonder if there are any still around who lived there or visited.
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That is a real good question and worth pondering. There might also be some real pain for a family who might still be in the area but lost a home such as this.
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Mike, thanks for liking my post History on the Wall Life in My Pocket. The house in that post also spoke to the people who occupied it during the season. Structures and places are imbued with the life or lives that participated there. Maybe they are far from abandoned in that way.
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I think you are exactly right and I always feel some presence when I shoot those homes. And, I see images in windows that others don’t see. Hmmm. Perhaps I am spirit friendly.
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