by more Sointula
After all the recent distractions, I am trying to return to writing more about our island hopping journey in September. I last wrote about Sointula and now just want to add some more photos from there before moving on.
You know how intrigued I am by aging, weathered and textured things,
and the patterns of both light and dark and the disintegrating architectural shapes.
The above images are of the same boathouse as shown in the previous Sointula post.
This is a different one which has almost merged with nature’s overgrowth, almost melting back into the earth.
October 29, 2013 in Canada and BC, Photoworks, Textures, Travel by Marja-Leena
I love the beautifully shaped shingles on the wall under the eaves in the penultimate photograph. It is interesting how buildings like this made from the forest, are eventually composted back into the forest, as you say.
Olga, the shaped shingles are lovely indeed! Wood is a plentiful material in this part of the world for housing, boats and boathouses.
By the way, by featuring these ruin-like old boathouses, I don’t mean that the whole town looks like this. There are many newer homes and outbuildings. Fishing, and therefore boats are still an important livelihood for these people.
They are beautiful pictures. It’s a good thing for your photographs that the people who own that boathouse haven’t heard they could have made a mint selling the wood to specialty furniture makers in NYC.
Susan, you are joking, right? Oh, I know there are so-called antiques that are made with reclaimed old barn doors and that sort of thing. There was an article in our local paper or mag about such a collector/ builder who visited Quebec and brought back a warehouseful of weathered doors.
I too love silvered wood like that.
Glad you’re all sorted with your blogging platform at last, and thanks for the heads-up about changing the feed. Here’s to many more years of it!
Lucy, I’m pleased to have you visit! I think I lost many of my readers during this blog’s downtime. With the switch to a new platform came the change in the feed so that many don’t know I’m back. Thanks, I hope to stick around for a while yet though I’m still fixing annoying things like broken links and missing line spaces due to different codes.
A silvery ruin . . . good for All Hallows Eve! Just cobbled together some strange things and then zipped over here, as I thought for sure you’d have some ancient weirdness up today… but this will serve, won’t it?
Marly, if I could have captured an image of this boathouse on a dark moonlit night, it would make a great image for All Hallows! We’ll just have to imagine it so. Have a spooky one, my dear.