I am introducing a post for your photographs with the theme - Seen Better Days

This was taken in 2005 after we sold out home in the city and set off traveling
This was just the other side of Woomera ( SA) At Gelndambo in the middle of a desert …like Woomera
We was heading across the great Nullarbor Plains ( almost 3 .000 km trip in mostly desert ) to Perth
these tanks were for Bore water for steam trains
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RadishRose said:
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This specific house, known as the "Headlight Road house," was built in 1910 by a lumber merchant and is situated in the Eastern Plains of Colorado.



  • The house has fallen into extreme disrepair over the years, with visible damage to its structure and missing sections.

  • It was reportedly scheduled to be burned down in the winter of 2024.
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I find a great sadness about these shots - it speaks of life but also life gone and life deteriorating [like my spelling!] and life not cared about anymore?? I am blessed with the gift of pareidolia so perhaps I see things differently anyhow?
 
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This is long dead but slowly decaying ancient bristlecone pine snag in the White Mountains at over 11,000 feet within other dead trees mid frame and living trees in the distance, many over a millennia old. The pitch dense wood weathers slowly in its harsh timberline environment.

With winter winds blowing left to right, the young tree was just a trunk section at frame left, that after years died except for living cambium on its protected, lee, right side, that in turn eventually died, leaving in like manner, a series of trunks before the roots could no longer sustain water and nutrients for life.

For web downsized, Sony a6000 9200 by 6000 pixels full image size.
 
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