Comments on: Farm House

By: Dee/reddirtramblings

Dee/reddirtramblings — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:15:38 +0000

In rural Oklahoma, we have a lot of these farmhouses usually leaning in the direction of the never ending prairie wind. I’m glad you took the photo. It’s a good reminder. Photoshopped, it could be artistic and framed, it’s so good.~~Dee

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:45:48 +0000

Having (finally) made it into my own home, I have had similar thoughts. . .and have thought similar things about other old houses. Were they houses of happiness or sadness? What great events took place there? Were the folks who lived there sad to leave or glad to shake the dust from their feet?

My new house is strong. It will stand a long, long time–but only if there is life inside of it.

By: TheChickadeefeeder

TheChickadeefeeder — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:24:20 +0000

My dad didn’t tend to do things for us much, but once he stopped at a rocky cut through a hill that we always passed through–just so we could hop out and grab a rock from it. The traffic was pretty heavy, but every time we had passed through it, we kids longed for a rock. I’ll never forget him doing that for us.

By: Rivkeleh

Rivkeleh — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:20:58 +0000

My uncle had a corvair behind the hangar in which he kept his crop-dusting planes. With a tree growing up out of it. Somewhere I have a negative of the photo I took; heaven only knows if I’ll ever find it again. But I remember going back there one day with the camera, thinking “how the heck does that happen?” It’s like he parked it one day back there, and just forgot to ever drive it again. I imagine him going back there thinking “I’ll just start her up and…” and then seeing the tree coming out of the roof. And by then, what are you going to do?

I am cracking up at the idea that that house had a solar panel, Fiddledeedee.

By: Fiddledeedee

Fiddledeedee — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:30:16 +0000

I totally get you, A.M. I am also fascinated with old, falling down, abandoned farmhouses. I can see them in their former glory, and imagine the families that came and went through the unhinged door.

Oh, and that was a solar panel that you photoshopped out. Silly A.M.

By: junebug

junebug — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:38:31 +0000

We think alike. Seeing old houses like the one in the picture always makes me stop and wonder about the people who lived there long ago and what their lives were like.

My dad recently bought an old car (’55 Chevy, I think it is) and just yesterday I sat in it for the first time and thought back to more than half a century ago when it must have been a new car for a family, and the road trips they might have taken.

By: Janis

Janis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:55:02 +0000

I live in an old house. No, it doesn’t look like the one in your photo…yet. One of my favorite spaces in our old house is a room on the third floor that I have turned into my own sanctuary. I love to look out of the demi-lune windows down to the street below and try to imagine what the earlier residents saw from the same vantage point.

I think of all the eras the inhabitants of this house lived through. The Great Depression,WWII, mini skirts, etc. The mothers who have kissed their babies, the children that have left and started their own lives, and how it goes on and on, broken only when one family leaves and another moves in to start their story.

Thank you for your beautiful photo and the reminder that we need to stop along the roadside of our life, and enjoy the moment.

By: sheilah

sheilah — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:15:38 +0000

Great job photoshopping out the tarp (or whatever it is). One little suggestion (and if you hadn’t shown the original I wouldn’t have even noticed) is you might want to clean up the shadow on the side of the house.

Seeing an old house or barn always makes me wonder about who lived and worked there too.

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I know. My husband pointed out the shadow out too. I did as much as I could in the 3 minutes I had to do it.

~ AM

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Okay, I couldn’t stand it. I fixed it as best I could. ~ AM

By: trixiefan

trixiefan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:08:48 +0000

I think the same thing when I see an old, abandoned house. How once it was new and people lived there and raised a family and now it’s just a shell.

By: Susan J.

Susan J. — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:07:44 +0000

My sister and I took a similar picture of a house in NW Arkansas. They are so interesting. That was a big, nice house at one time. It does make you wonder.