Penchrise

[ThreadBbdr]

Wow, beautiful. It's too bad the little cottages have been left to run to ruin; they would make great vacation houses. I've always wanted to restore a stone house.

[Finn]

Wow! More great pics.
Thank you, sir!

[Jock Scot]

Thanks Alex, super pictures.My word, your pictures always remind me, that in spite of everything, we do live in a beautiful world.

[Glen C]

Thanks Alex, I always enjoy you photos of the border country. It always amazes me that there are so many old buildings in disrepair, around here if its old it gets torn down. You don't even see many old barn anymore.

[Alan H]

I wonder if any of those little cottages might ever be for sale....

[starbkjrus]

Very very nice Alex. Certainly some nice scenery.

[cessna152towser]

I wonder if any of those little cottages might ever be for sale....

It would take a lot of work to make this habitable again.

[Alan H]

It would take a lot of work to make this habitable again.

Yes it would. Basically what you have there is stone walls and a foundation. I assume there's no plumbing and no electricity. You'd have to dig a well and install solar and wind electrical power. You'd have to clear the houses, tear down the roof and existing beams and put in new. You have to plaster the inside walls, install custom windows since the window openings are surely anything but square.... and so on.

It sounds like an absolutely wonderful Spring-through-Summer project, and when you're done....oh, my. OH, my.

[ThreadBbdr]

Yes, a lot of work, but MAN, the views and the History!

I had a friend back in college who was also a weaver. She and her husband restored a stone house here in Kansas that started out looking about like that. They basically had the four walls and that was it. And it had burned, so the inside stone was in even worse shape than these are.

If I ever win the lottery........

[Dirk Skene]

A beautiful photo tour ... as usual.