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Hey! Here we go with yet another blog post with a list of photos taken during my last walk in the wilds.
Technically we are in the middle of spring but weather is closer to summer, so some days it's too hot and therefore not the right temperature to enjoy a long walk without getting exhausted and drenched in sweat. So I got the habit of checking weather predictions often, to assure I won't get toasted in the attempt.
And so this week saturday looked kinda promising, with slightly lower temperatures than sunday and even a probability of rain higher than 0%. Isn't cool? (no pun intended, lol).
And so I just had to try. And... wow, so glad I did! Indeed temperatures was considerably lower, now more of what would be expected of actual spring, and it was even raining for awhile. So cool, really!
And so it was a wonderful day and took plenty of pics, which took me a long time to check and select, but here we are sharing a bunch of them. I hope you like! :)
Anyways... after walking for awhile and fleeing out of the urban, crowdy and noisy city we start to see some nice places. This time it's just a small piece of wasteland not too far from the city yet, but still nice.
Unfortunately no cats welcoming us in the rural areas this time. For some reason the few ones I seen were too elusive. But well, there's that one I catched crossing that road.
Speaking of roads... which path would you choose here: ground or asphalt? Contrary to what may sound more logical, the nicer places opens in the asphalt side. Sounds like an accurate analogy of life itself, since oftentimes we have to go throughout a long hell to finally reach our dear paradise.
Okay, so now we are past one of these abandoned buildings. Not the one with the cute, innocent drawings but a rather ordinary one full of gibberish.
Nothing interesting to show from the inside, but that darker room behind a wall's hole was creepy and cool enough. Maybe someday properly equipped with a lantern...
For some reason I LOVE the aesthetics of these old, rusty fences when combined with the contrast of dark and cloudy skies. Maybe reminds to some old horror movies, I dunno.
Here's another abandoned building. Nothing new but still showing a bunch of pics in different angles.
These spiky plants (thistles?) never caught my attention too much, but they and their also spiky flowers can be surprisingly beautiful, too. Commonly seen as ugly plants, but maybe yet another accurate analogy for real life and how the seemingly "ugly" people can have their own beautiful side. Speaking about the merely superficial, outside side, of course. What truly matters is the inside, after all!
Okay, now we finally reached that place again. Rain intensified a bit, but unlike that other rainy day this time I was properly equipped with a portable umbrella in my bag. And the terrain wasn't wet enough so comfy to pass without trouble at all. The happy smiling rock (from the pareidolias post) was there, but it got deteriorated over time. Maybe now looking closer to a furby, a moggle or whatever. But still worth telling them "hi!" because, why not?
Continuing a bit deeper in the woods and getting welcome by the palm trees.
...and then we reach another asphalt road, this time unusually silent and barely any cars, to eventually get welcomed by... a snail!
By the way, if you are that kind of kind person who watches every single step carefully to avoid crushing even the smallest creatures, like ants and bugs... congrats for being a decent human!
I mean... yeah, unfortunately the difference of size and speed between us humans and these other creatures is too much and unwanted accidents may still happen even while going careful. But this is no excuse to go too careless and frantic about that.
So my most sincere gratitude and admiration to those who really *do* care about that, seriously! :)
Anyways... that asphalt road is rather short and more of a middle way to reach other, farther and nice calm lands. So here we are again, enjoying the time being the only human alive around.
Oh, and if you wanted more wild life pics... here's some of that.
Now we get into yet another abandoned house, but this one is a bit bigger and better isolated in the middle of these calm lands. So calm, it wasn't that gravely assaulted by glibberish, so ideal for a more natural look.
Nothing interesting to show after that, so just adding a bunch of random photos from the same area that looks nearly the same but without further commentary.
As we continue walking and descending on the unstable grounds we eventually get to some corners where we can see the roads and signs of human civilization, like the roads, cars and privately maintained fields below us. I hope no one feels observed!
...And now as a tradition we end the post with an unrelated last pic. Is anyone down to play a guessing game? Anyone could say what drink that can was decades ago before it got that rusted? Unless someone from the future comes with a time machine to then travel to the past and come back to our present, we can never know. But it's still fun to let our mind to ramble into such meaningless details and thoughts, right?
Anyways... that's the end... of this post! I hope the new week gonna be fine for you all. :)
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amborias
andalucia?
yo digo k fue una cocacola
No exactamente en AndalucĂa, pero no te alejaste mucho. đź‘€
Ok, a ver si alguien que lea esto tiene una máquina del tiempo y nos puede confirmas de qué era ese bote. :D
by Unknown Pseudoartist; ; Report
Clanvy
Thanks for the usual photo travel.
Seeing all these abandoned buildings - and the fact that they're in worse conditions than what I usually see - got me into thinking about how the time destroy them, inside and outside. For sure the hot temperature, along with the weather, did a lot, but it intrigue me to know from how many years they're standing there, alone from every treatment and attention.
Also, some plants that I never saw before caught my attention. I already knew the purple flowers that, as you said, share a deep meaning, but other flowers and leaves surprised me for their pointy and angular shape.
Thank YOU for your nice comments, as usual! :)
Honestly I don't knom much about plants (more into animals generall, I guess) and oftentimes I have to check on Wordreference to check the right words in english, haha. But yeah, there's probably some plans on this area that aren't that common in others. People from northern european countries tends to get surprised about the cacti and palm trees, for instance, while here these are pretty much ubitiquous. I don't know the name for the spiky angular plant you mention, but kinda reminds me to alloe vera, which I highly doubt it is, since it's not the kind of plans we'd usually see growing in the wild.
These ruined buildings never stops intriguing me as well. I'd LOVE to get more info about them, their backstory and anything about whoever lived there or what they were used for, etc. But unfortunately it's not that easy to get info online, and I'm too shy to simply ask any of the few random strangers I encounter in the way haha.
But yeah, looks like it was many, many decades to get into such broken state. The bigger one in this post has one of the tags that include a date, 1974, which is the oldest year I seen in such kind of tags, so sounds like it was already abandoned in that year.
And a somewhat curious story: another tag in the same building includes full names of what seems to be the typical couple, boy and girl, with full names. I tried searching for both full names, and couldn't find anything relevant about the male name, but the female name... a few results appeared linked to my province and pointing to an article about the workers in an old factory that was mostly ruled by women. In fact the article is oriented in reivindicating the role of women in times when feminism barely had any presence yet.
That was pretty interesting, not just because the topic of the document itself, but also because for every person mentioned it included their birth and death dates, and that woman's birth date was literally in the 19th century (sometime around the late 1800s). Assuming that "couple tag" was written when she was still young (since that practice isn't that common in older people), it sounds very likely that tag was written sometime in the early 1900s, so far earlier than the openly specified 1974 and that "Tio Jus" guy (a name nobody would use nowadays lol but more like our grandpas).
I wish there were easier ways to investigate that anyways, haha.
by Unknown Pseudoartist; ; Report
Oh, also adding that there are many other buildings that are in far better state than the ones I showed in this post, and these are probably just as abandoned. However, to avoid potential legal troubles, I tend to hesitate too much about entering unless it's 200% sure it is abandoned. Oftentimes these may be partly broken and with no fences (or rusty fences, like these of other photos here), but maybe the walls and roof is still totally intact, or there are not too much of graffiti or tags, so then what if I'm invading some actual person's house? Ideally just apologizing would be enough in such cases, but it's a situation that can be hard to deal with, especially when "travelling" alone.
by Unknown Pseudoartist; ; Report
Oh, interesting story. The old date explain how some of the buildings are in such bad conditions. The content of the document also makes sense if we watch at those years through history. In the first decades of 1900s women started gaining importance in society, so that's why the document itself has been written.
I understand what you wrote about abandoned buildings, you can never be sure...
Some of my neighbors live in another place, but they usually return there when they want to get in contact with nature. Their house isn't in great condition, and from anknown eyes it could seem abandoned.
by Clanvy; ; Report
soyelmismisimo
que lindas fotoss, y que lindo es ese lugar
¡Gracias, colega! Ya sabes que es un placer desconectar por un rato en estos lugares, espero que por allá haya sitios asà de sobra no muy lejos de donde vives. :)
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