Savannah and I left the cold abandoned bus in hopes of warming up along the car ride. By the time we got back to the paved road, there was a long forgotten Christmas tree farm on a hill across the way. I turned onto this road, but we kept driving until we were ready to leave the car and start shooting again.
I passed slowly through a covered bridge, and ultimately decided to turn onto a rode we had both never been on before. It came to an end at a house with farmland. With our windows both rolled up to retain the warm air, two wide and stout shepherds greeted us. As I was turning around to go back from where we came, the barking dogs were an entertaining duo.
Once we came to the Christmas tree farm again, we decided it we were ready to walk into the tree darkened cover through the single wire fence. There was a wide and slightly lit passageway, so naturally we walked to it.
Savannah with her bedroom mirror in hand and fur vest mentioned reflecting the trees into the mirror like she’d seen before, so that’s what we attempted. I think it was a success!
Whenever you see a mirror, you’re looking in to it…
We also attempted a some from a distance, but I find that the mirror isn’t as effective this way, plus there is a snowflake overload!
With the temperatures still dropping and snow beginning to pick up, we left the overgrown tree columns and ventured back to my car parked on the snowy roadside. We then began to drive, discussing where we should go next. Our words led us to turn up a separate dirt road where a small barn lies abandoned. When we ultimately drove up to it, “No Trespassing” signs were posted.
It’s never a good idea to trespass… It can be tempting to do what a sign tells you not to do, but no good usually comes from it. Signs are made for a reason 😉
We kept driving up the road, trying to figure out what to do. Savannah mentions getting photos of her laying in the snow, so we are each scanning around to see any good spots as we drive past them. Nothing appears. We could go to the swimming hole, we thought next. I was getting ready to find a turn around spot, and up on the left comes an old brick farmhouse with a dilapidated red barn to it’s near right. I reverse and crank my wheel to make fresh tracks into the driveway hidden amongst the deep snow. This place has been abandoned all the times that I’ve ever gone past it. Additionally, there aren’t any “No Trespassing” signs present. We contemplated whether or not we should check it out. The ultimate conclusion was that, yes, it would be appropriate to check it out. I silenced my rumbling Subaru with key turn, and gathered my bag full of gear. We opened our doors and made way to the barn.
Walking toward the structure, I saw an opening in the sparse winter bushes that could be walked along to the barn. A substantial white capped log lies across the path. I climbed up and over and Savannah soon followed. As we got close, I scoped it out and found a crouched opening through a hole in the structure and around the corner. We entered the mess of this previous horse home and began looking around at the dated object scattered around us.
A calendar from 1970 and a telephone from who knows when… worth a few poses!
There was a separate room passed through a wide open rectangle and dropped down three feet. I hopped down and looked around. Definitely an interesting room, but I wasn’t going to have Savannah jump down… She wasn’t having that either, Too sketchy!
Instead, she stood in the rectangle, a slightly safer place to be inside this troubled barn.
Our presence in the barn also brought on some most helpful lighting…. =P
It wasn’t as cold in the barn, considering the wind wasn’t blowing, but soon after this, we agreed to call it quits. So we exited through the same hole that we came in. As we follow our bootprints back to the pathway and once again come to this log, I ask Savannah if she would sit so we could get a few last shots. I didn’t feel bad asking her sit on a snowy log considering she already mentioned laying in the snowy entirely.
She eagerly agreed, so I hopped over the log and had her face me so I could capture the wooded area and vague pathway that behind her.
At this point we were actually finished. Back into the car and into town we went. What a cool experience it was, going from location to location and figuring out everything along the way.
Comment! Which one is your favorite… Do you have any questions… What should I do next? Thanks for viewing, and thanks again to Savannah for being such a champ!
P.S… It was a light orb.
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