Showing posts with label farms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farms. Show all posts

10/08/2014

Coastline ruin, Sesimbra, Portugal



Visited 18.5.2014 by jonahi. This traditional Portuguese house built with natural stones was clearly abandoned decades ago. Today it is laying silent under the burning sun, watching the Atlantic ocean painting the landscape perfect and blurring the horizon. There was a strange text on the wall painted with blue letters. It wasn't Portuguese language, but seemed like a name of a person to me. Other than that, the ruin didn't have many signs of its glory days left; mainly shelves, doors and window holes. In the last photo there are cute eaves on top of the door reminding me somehow of an old lady wearing a scarf on her head and a pinny on top of her skirt, peeking from the door to check the weather in the morning.

10/07/2014

Farm in the middle of the forest (Part 3), Pirkanmaa, Finland


The most rousing part of this farm was the last building we visited in. The evening was getting darker and we were thinking about leaving since we were camping and still had to set up a tent and build a campfire. It seemed to be troublesome to get into the last building and we were close to give up. Possibly there wasn't even anything interesting inside. For some reason, maybe it was intuition, we still hesitated and wandered around the yard until we finally figured out how to get in. And the place was totally worth it.
   The whole house seemed to be untouched after the last inhabitant had left, Or almost - based on the half-eaten biscuits and flour packages there had been some little residents with rounded ears and a scaly tail. We had a feeling the last person (or people) who had lived there had left in a hurry. One sign of that was a cup on a table with a dried coffee stain in it. I saw a duck in a lace dress and with a crown in the stain.
   Among other things patient information cards, magnifying glass and the rocking chair gave an impression of an old couple living there. I tried to find information about abbreviation "PYK" (engraved on the ring) but didn't find anything that would make any sense. If you know what it is, please tell me. Another thing telling about the history of the place was a painting of the farm how it used to be. The major differences between the picture and present was the color of the main building (used to be red, now green) and the condition of the yard where bushes and grass are now feral. The most unforgettable object in the house was a photo of a young girl with a haunting, miraculously ambiguous gaze. 

9/22/2014

Farm in the middle of the forest (Part 2), Pirkanmaa, Finland


After visiting outbuildings we explored the red one of two residential buildings. It was bright and spacious inside. I enjoyed my time wandering around and taking photos. Sometimes abandoned houses are so full of stuff we need to climb and crawl to get from one room to another. It's also kind of fun but I still prefer not-so-crammed places like this. When there is less stuff it's easier to concentrate to details and notice everything.

My favourite "room" in aged, big houses is usually a hallway. There is normally a lot of windows in hallways and it makes the light very beautiful - especially when it lies on dusty, wooden furnitures like the old chest and used-to-be-red chairs in this place. There was only two larges rooms in the whole building. One of them had suffered from the collapsed roof even though there was Jesus protecting it. I was walking on my toes (although I know it really doesn't make any sense) being scared of falling throughout the decayed floor. The floor of another room was covered on snow-like pieces of white paint fallen from the roof. Somehow it reminded me of Narnia tales.