As soon as I pulled up I knew something was distinctly different from my visit of just a few months earlier and quickly realized just what it was...the landowner had let cattle into the area to graze.
Cattle are not particularly kind to old wooden buildings so the old church endured some new bruises and broken boards. Sad to see.
Glad the small cemetery nearby has a sturdy new barbed-wire fence that will keep it out of harm's way for many more years to come.
The Congregational Church near Gros Ventre-Tothill, Alberta was photographed on November 8, 2023.
Its wabi sabi is even more wabi sabi now.
ReplyDeleteBut still standing (more or less).
DeleteSad to see. Perhaps it wasn't only the cattle that did additional bruising - could have been wind as well.
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