#abandoned

I'm Getting Overhauled!

Abandoned Corvair, Sunbury, Georgia. I've been blessed with pretty robust health for most of my life. In fact, I was doing okay at age 87 until I had a bad fall while going down into a canyon to photograph Potter's Falls near Wartburg, Tennessee. (You can read about it here .) That cost me some walking mobility, and things have been moving slowly downhill since then. I haven't been writing much lately because, frankly, I haven't been feeling great. I've been lethargic and unmotivated. I think what I need is an overhaul! A round the end of World War II, while I was still a child, my father owne

A Life in Photography · EN

I Am Obsolete!

Obsolete and abandoned, but still beautiful. 1937 Hudson Terraplane. A few months ago I logged onto the web site of one of my credit card companies, only to be informed that I could not access the site because my computer's operating system was out of date. A little background: In 1993 or '94, around the time we built our house, we got our first computers -- a desktop, and a neat little Toshiba laptop that I really liked and used to write the text of t he the Rock City Barns book. It was eventually stolen. Over the years we went through machines from several different manufacturers and used su

A Life in Photography · EN

Tugendamt und Pizzarand (Virtue Office and Pizza Crust) in Kleinmachnow, Germany

It is not a pretty place, and most drivers speed right past it without a second thought. Hurrying down the AVUS, onto the urban highway, and finally reaching the destination after a long drive—who actually bothers to obey the 60 km/h speed limit around the Checkpoint Bravo area? And yet, the former Dreilinden rest stop is a sight worth seeing, resembling an architectural lava lamp in both shape and color scheme. Built between 1968 and 1972 based on designs by architects Rainer Rümmler and Hans Joachim Schröder, the complex—featuring clearance buildings, a rest stop, two gas stations, and a bri

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