Duplex
Meanwhile, back in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, this place slowly falls apart.
It’s got a lot of company: there are many buildings in town that have seen better days. But you know me: I love places like this. I like the way they fall apart, the way someone tries – without success – to stop the decay, the way even the patched parts start to fall apart, too. I love the textures of the different building materials. And the way the weeds grow up, seeming to guard whatever’s still inside.
And, I love the mystery of the two front doors.
(My weekend was a WordPress weekend. I met up with blogger Donna Catterick in Santa Rosa and we spent Saturday and part of Sunday taking pictures. And, also had a couple of great phone conversations with Ehpem and Brett Erickson. What a weird thing, blogging!)
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 9.21.2013
Posted on September 24, 2013, in abandoned buildings, architecture, Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, architecture, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, new mexico, one day one image, photo a day, photography, santa rosa, santa rosa new mexico. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
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Something familiar here, must be all the rectangles. You need to start bringing your own chair to these shoots. And maybe also a bowl of fruit.
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Funny story: I was sitting in a chair and eating an apple AT THE VERY SAME TIME that I took this shot! Can you believe it?
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Chief: I find that very hard to believe Max. 🙂
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Ha! Ha! A “Get Smart” reference! Excellent – I loved that show.
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I love the different textures on this, especially the roof. As a guess, I think there must be a fire wall between the two doors separating 2 apartments or businesses. We may never know, though.
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That roof was something. The wood shingles were very damaged, possibly from being a thousand (more or less) years old, but also from a bad hail storm that hit Santa Rosa in July; http://bit.ly/13w4AtE
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Those shingles, if they are red or yellow cedar, could well be hundreds of years old, possibly even close to a thousand. A lot of shingles are now made from salvaged logs lying in the forest – redcedar is very durable on the forest floor and can lie there for one or two hundred years and still be useable for shakes and shingles. Sometimes old unfinished aboriginal canoes get cut into shake blocks (illegally) and those would have been there since probably the mid 1800s. And standing cedar are sometimes 800 years old or more. So, your guess might not be far off.
And thanks for the phone call from far away – it was a bit strange to talk in person, rather than via typed words, but very nice.
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Way to go, Research Department! Very interesting information on cedar shingles. I had no idea aboriginal canoes would get turned into shingles. All the houses in our neighborhood used to have cedar shingles but over the years, and through various hail storms, and via “encouragement” from homeowners insurance companies, there aren’t left.
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Reblogged this on per mare… and commented:
Run-down but still standing.
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