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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Bodie & Snow


Another discarded wash basin.  You can see by the mountains in the distance that Bodie is not too far away from ever receiving snow.  Elevation 8,379 feet (2,554 meters)

Another example of re-purposing materials.  Looks like the snow caved in the roof some. or maybe the building was made with a sway-back ridge.

 This can was spared the indignity of being ripped open, flattened and nailed to the side of a building.


9 comments:

Stewart M said...

I get the feeling you enjoyed this part of the world!

Sinbad seems to lead a bit more of an adventurous life than Mr. H!

Cheers - Stewart M - Jakarta (for this week!)

s.c said...

The brown rust is against the natural habit in a balance that is black to white. Nice shots again John.

biebkriebels said...

An amazing use of cans for the house, it looks very nice.

EG CameraGirl said...

I'm pretty sure I would never have thought to use flattened tin cans as roofing and siding. Too bad the structure is caving in as it's an interesting way to cover a building.

Billy Blue Eyes said...

Must have taken a lot of old cans to cover that building

Anonymous said...

The building looks very bad in condition...

TexWisGirl said...

i feel a bit like that building today. :)

Michelle said...

I really like that last shot.

Andy said...

I am surprise that a scrounger hasn't come by and picked up the items laying on the ground.