Collapsing barn in Cowlitz, County Washington on a cloudy Spring Day.
Went on a drive looking for scenes of blooming Spring trees, which are peaking in southern Washington state. Didn't find any such scenes on this gloomy day, but did find this collapsing barn.
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Horse grazing on high meadow with foothills of the Cascade Mountains in the background west of The Dalles in Wasco County.
This is directly above the Columbia River Gorge.
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Grace Lutheran Church and collapsing storefront in the semi-ghost town of Barber, Montana, in Golden Valley County.
There are still a few people living around Barber, which at the beginning of the 20th century was a stop on the Milwaukee Railroad. Grace Lutheran Church still holds services and at one time had the smallest Lutheran congregation in the United States. I understand that this collapsing store was the last operating store in town.
Source: Montana’s Historic Landscapes: 35 Years in the Big Sky Country.
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Abandoned (or at least former) IOOF lodge in a Quonset hut in Hingham, Montana, population 131, in Hill County, Montana along the historic “Hi Line” railroad.
At least I think this is Hingham. It took considerable time to find this (probable) location in Google Maps months after I shot the photo.
Couldn’t find any history on this lodge online. While I was shooting this photo, the gentleman across the street stopped his yard work to chat, and asked me if I knew any history for this lodge, because he didn’t. He thought that perhaps I was so interested in the building because I had been a former member.
The International Order of Odd Fellows, sometimes called the Triple Link Fraternity – “Friendship, Love and Truth” was founded in 1819 and is still the largest fraternal organization in the world. Source: Wikipedia.
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Frenchman’s Coulee in central Washington. This canyon was carved-out by massive intermittent floods of ice melt at the end of the last Ice Age about 12,000 years ago. The catastrophic floods were up 700 feet deep and these mesas were giant waterfalls.
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