Rural Architecture

Children of the Daniel Kirima family. Kenya, farmland northeast of Nairobi. The building behind them is the barn for their milk cows. To the right of it (out of the shot) was a tiny hut for cooking, just a few yards from the house. AA238 Fun times.

Klamath River at Keno, Oregon.

AA332 - Signs

If you're driving by and you have to go...

This was a school in the 1920s or 30s, then a new one was built closer to town. At the time, this would have been the "country school" for farm kids. Later it was used as school district offices and storage, but has been abandoned for many years. There are still a lot of maintenance and office supplies inside, moldering away. I suppose it will be torn down at some point, but I wish the owner (probably the county) would leave it alone or restore it. As everywhere else - no money for that. Another version:

It was interesting to see how this corner was constructed, hollow, with several layers of bricks. There were no pipes or wires inside it, so would that be for added strength? It's a shame to see a nice old building like this crumble away, but there are so many like it...

AA280 February.