Posted by: livelovethinkexist | July 18, 2009
Photos – My Return to Michigan State University – 1979-1981 (Set Two – My Canadian Bike Trip)
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During spring break in 1980, I took a bike trip through the Province of Ontario, Canada; a barn stands silent in a pleasant field in eastern Michigan.
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I made it as far as Cambridge, Ontario, as the weather was very cold and windy – years later I would live near Cambridge, England; and here I’ve photographed the doors and a window of an old barn.
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A view while crossing the bridge from Port Huron, MI, to Sarnia, Ontario; looking north towards Lake Huron.
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The southern view while crossing the bridge from Port Huron, MI, to Sarnia, Ontario; looking in the direction towards Detroit.
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Here I’m on the road towards London, Ontario – I had previously visited London, England, and would later live just an hour away in Suffolk County, East Anglia, England; here another barn door is captured by my camera lense.
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I experimented with taking pictures of old barns and abandoned houses along the highway.
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The subject of “windows within windows” was very intriguing photographically to me.
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Just as the eyes are the “windows of the soul,” so too the windows of buildings display the life within the four walls.
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An abandoned house along the way stands without a spirit or a soul, as only memories remain.
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How sad to see that these windows are completely empty; devoid and empty of any light or life.
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The door of an old barn frames the distant window within; holding the promise of nature in the distance.
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An abandoned home without life displays the far wall slats; revealing only emptiness inside.
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A beautiful field of wild flowers along the highway in Ontario, Canada; catches my attention and that of my camera lense.
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My camera captures the dawn as it streams into my one man tent, somewhere between Woodstock and Cambridge; I would later live near both cities in England.
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This is the same tent and equipment that I brought to the U.K. and France, on my previous bike trip to Europe and the British Isles.
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Here I’m camping in a field beside a grain silo; the tent was the only new item since my U.S. bike trip with Bruce.
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There is a basic and simple nature in riding a bike and camping along the way; and relying on the generosity of complete strangers to provide you with a place to spend the night.
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Life is reduced to the bare essentials of man and the elements; surrounded by the beauty of nature and challenged by the weather.
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Well tended old headstones along the way, some broken from years gone by; tell of the people that came this way long before I decided to travel this same road.
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More headstones along the road; lonely sentinels of a silent and long distant past.
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Another sad and abandoned house along my route; revealing only emptiness within these abandoned walls.
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These front windows framed the rear window within their center sash; displaying the promise of spring beyond the darkness and emptiness within.
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Reframed in this cropped photo, the rear window contains life that calls attention to it; and the eye responds.
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Life continues on despite emptiness; hope always springs eternal as evidenced by the promise of both God and nature.
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