Urban Crawling

Well its been a bit of time since I have blogged about my adventures in the city of Detroit and the surrounding communities. Its not that I have lost interest in doing it, its just well to be honest we had the strangest winter. I wouldn't even call it a winter. Actually it was more of a frigid cold, rainy less snow than usual kind of winter. There were many days I had the desire to go out and do some urban exploration but the minute I stuck my head out the door I changed my mind. There is just something about a freezing cold day and rain that can put a damper on things. This isn't to say I didn't go out once in a while and just take a look.

There were a couple of "good days" to go out for a ride. I discovered that some of my favorite haunts had been boarded up, torn down or even burnt to the ground. A few places even had high fences around them to protect what was left of the structure.

There are often times as I am taking photographs that I wonder about the building, home or house of worship. Who lived there? What were the people like? Why did they move? What mysteries does the house hold? How many people lived there? Did they have children?

 In the case of "abandoned" buildings I often wonder are they truly abandoned? Did the owner just lock the door and walk away or was it just left empty for a long period of time with no interest in finding a new purpose for it. Structures have purpose. They house manufacturing, worship, a place for people to live. So why just walk away? I guess in reality I will never know why someone one day just shut off the lights, turned the key and never looked back.