A window that has surrendered to time takes on a bit of texture and elegance.
(click image for enhanced view)
Mike's Look at Life
Photography, memoirs, random thoughts.
A window that has surrendered to time takes on a bit of texture and elegance.
(click image for enhanced view)
Mike's Look at Life 
This is great – I love the texture and ruggedness.
LikeLike
It is rugged. And so nice of you to drop in Allison. Can I fry you an egg?
LikeLike
I am a total sucker for b&w photos. Why how very lovely! Would love a farm fresh egg with my coffee 🙂 Thank you kindly, friend.
LikeLike
Hang on, I have to run down to a local farm…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ok, then I’ll . . . . churn the butter? 🙂
LikeLike
Damn, this is beginning to sound like work!
LikeLike
Haha, let’s just enjoy the coffee then, yes? I hope your Monday is full of peace and inspiration. Thank you for your hospitality!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Fab! Love the wood texture and that very grungy window glass…
LikeLike
That glass has not been cleaned in decades. Nor should it be. Thanks Susan.
LikeLiked by 1 person
But a few extra cobwebs wouldn’t go amiss……
LikeLiked by 1 person
Makes me wonder who looked out from the inside and what happened to the light as it filtered through that muzzy glass.
LikeLike
It is all a mystery to me. It could well be home to a chupacabra, or a werewolf, or even a den of vampires.
LikeLike
I had to look that one up – the chupacabra. “Tis a goat sucking gargoyle like figure. I think I can handle werewolves or vampires, but goat suckers? 🙂
LikeLike
Funny. I often refer to chupacabas and very few people know what the heck it is. Now you would be one of them, Dor.
LikeLike
The dirt and reflections on the window makes it appear Frankenstein is looking out.
LikeLike
That might explain the sign I saw nearby that said “Doctor at work, no trespassing.”
LikeLike
A spooky image Mike. Great texture and My wild imagination sees a bite out of the bottom windowsill. 🙂
LikeLike
If not a bite than certainly it appears as if something violent occurred. A break of some sort, or a ripping perhaps.
LikeLike
Halloween worthy at any rate.;)
LikeLike
Love the texture and the dirty window.
LikeLike
Thanks, Marylou.
LikeLike
Looks familiar.
LikeLike
You have one too?
LikeLike
Well, not now. 🙂 But I grew up on a farm, and there is something warm and fuzzy about dirty old barn windows. Mine would have a better paint job, though, since one summer I was the one to do it!
LikeLike
Gotcha. If it were mine I think I would keep it well maintained.
LikeLike
Want to hear something crazy? The summer my sister and I painted the barn, I got to do all the high parts because she was afraid of heights (She was smart and I was adventuresome.). The morning I painted the peak, Dad pulled the ton truck up and put an extension ladder in the bed, anchored with a rock. So there I was at 7 a.m. on the top of a double extension, stretching to get the tippy top. I know what I was thinking, but I often wonder what my dad was thinking! I could be dead!! 🙂
LikeLike
Wow. That is scary. Glad you were okay, Lilly.
LikeLike
Youth!!
LikeLike
I love the ruggedness and history etched into old barns and building. Great work Mike you captured that very well here…..like always!
I wonder though why the top window frame board has been replaced but the bottom completely neglected?
LikeLike
Good question. Maybe the top was all rotted away but the bottom had some time left. Budgetary constraints and all. And thanks John.
LikeLike
The shadows, raggedness and dirt all make me think of ghost stories. …Or maybe it’s a cover for a kinky dungeon, designed to look abandoned on the outside but all spic and span and leathery goodness on the inside.
Don’t mind me. It’s November, time for the 50k challenge. Brain is on overdrive! Love the photo Mike, I should come around more again.
LikeLike
Leathery goodness, eh. Yes, do drop by more often, Cat.
LikeLike
Yep. Leathery goodness. Love leather. Why do you think I like (proper) bikers so much? 😉
LikeLike
I always enjoy your architectural black and white photo’s. For me, it’s like time travel. In my mind I think about that day they were putting the finishing touches on a new building by installing the glass window. Must have been a lot of pride taken by building something like this with your own hands. I never have, that’s a bit sad to me.
LikeLike
I’m not much of a builder either, but I have completed a project or two that was beyond my comfort zone. Great pride in accomplishing that.
I became a complete man 15 years ago when I bought my first chainsaw. What a rush to use it. Now I have two, just in case I ever lose my sense of belonging.
LikeLike
LOL, so real men own chainsaws and use them at will. Good to know, good to know…too funny. I once took out a dead Buckthorn in our lake yard with a reciprocating saw. I sliced and diced one limb at a time until it was a pencil. Then chop chop at the trunk. The hardest part was the dang roots, they went to China. Oh Lord, plenty dirty that day. My husband was shocked when he got home and laughed. But yah, I can relate on a much smaller scale. I need a chainsaw!
LikeLike
Well apparently real women do some real men things too. Was boomdee a tomboy?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sometimes, if you can’t beat em’, join em’ I grew up with 3 brothers and a truck driving dad. I didn’t always have the opportunity to be a girly girl. I wouldn’t say Tomboy, I think ‘impatient’ maybe is the word. If it’s a project that won’t kill me (LOL) I’ll just go ahead and try it rather than wait for someone to get around to it. Sometimes there’s success, sometimes I get in over my head. One never knows until you try right?
LikeLike
While I think Boomdee is a great name, I’d buy you a beer if you told me your real name. Wouldn’t tell a soul.
LikeLiked by 1 person
LOL, it’s not a secret Mike, it’s on my ‘About Page’. It’s Kelly 😀
LikeLike
I read your about page….it must have just got by me. Hello Kelly.
My mother’s people were Ukrainian and grew up in Canada. My father’s side is from Lithuania.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh, what a nice combo 😀 Yummy traditional food during the holidays. My dad was Ukrainian/Romanian. Hence, I’ve never met a perogie I didn’t like, LOL Hey! Do you like Borsch? A place in Edmonton called ‘The Continental Treat’ has the best. Also Pickle soup. Do you have any European restaurants you can get a perogie fix in town?
LikeLiked by 1 person
I never developed a taste for Borsch and have had very limited exposure to Russian food. Judy says we have eaten perogies but hell if I remember it. We live in a college town of 80,000 with only a tiny amount of ethnic food available. When we lived in Denver for 28 years there was much more available and when I grew up in NY I was not exposed to all the great variety of food.
Pickle soup? Yikes.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Edmonton is very ethnically diversified. I think you can get any kind of food you like. Jim doesn’t like Ukrainian food either, so I have to rely on friends and relatives over the holidays to treat me. This part of Alberta has a lot of descendants of Ukrainian immigrants though too.
Pickle soup sounds wacky but it’s potato based and really scrumptious, honest 😀
LikeLike
I have to eat more Ukrainian food before we conclude I don’t like it. I imagine I might like quite a bit of it, and I would try almost anything. If pickle soup is potato based, I’m in. Eating is one of my favorite things.
Toronto I know has a great mix of ethnic foods and is as much a melting pot as NYC. I moved away from NY when I was 19 and never really got to experience it on my own, as an adult.
I had Great grandparents who met their end in the Ukraine at the hands of Nazis. They were elderly by then.
LikeLike
LikeLike
Nice!
LikeLike
Relieved! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person