Showing posts with label old. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old. Show all posts

Monday 16 September 2013

Beautifully abandoned

For my friend Tamara, because I know she cherishes warm feelings for this place.

Next to the petting farm where I work on saturdays, is an old, abandoned farm. This farm is about 200 years old -some parts are even older-, and a monument. The farm and its environment are neglected and overgrown, but it's still a beautiful place.
Within a few months, contractors are going to turn this farm into a modern care farm. What I hope for, is that the old, silent atmosphere will continue, but I'm afraid that will not happen. I know it's necessary to smart up the whole place and give it a new purpose, but I'm quite devoted to the place and how it is now.
For I want to remember the old farm as it was, I made a few pictures. I tried to catch the warm atmosphere of the old farm, but also the sadness of the expired buildings. I hope you can feel it.

The driveway of the farm is hardly used. You should see wood chips, but they are rotten en overgrown by plants.


The imposing pear trees may be over a hundred years old. They still bear fruit.



The passage to the front door.


The front door, a window of the upstairs room on the right. Through the years, the building sank a bit into the wet ground. That's why the building is crooked, in several spots.


The left side of the house.


The overgrown path behind the big cowshed.


An overgrown wing of the farm. I personally love this picture.


The back of the same wing, overgrown by brambles.


The wooden wagon shed is rotten and half collapsed.



The lock in the door of the old, rotten shed.


A dusty window in the old wagon shed.