My "Abandoned Shit Weekly" Contest Entry

With the unusually mild weather this weekend, @msvee and I decided to take a little drive around to find some neat abandoned houses to photograph for this week's #aswcontest by @customnature.
We didn't have to go very far from our house, as our neck of the woods is absolutely festooned with these ramshackle relics. A couple of them, in fact, were houses we considered buying many years ago as a renovation project. I guess we were their last lifeline, because they have sat unoccupied and untouched ever since.

This particular one sits in the woods by Shickshinny Lake about 5 minutes from our house. Like many of the older houses in this area, this American Federalist-style bungalow is over 100 years old, probably dating from the mid-1800s judging from the construction and materials used. Many of the features are long gone due to the sometimes violent storms we get around here. I especially love the faceted triangular window set into the gable.
Maybe someday someone will rescue this ol' gent. Or, more likely, the forces of nature will reclaim it.