Under a bright summer sky scattered with fluffy white clouds, an abandoned red brick commercial building slowly surrenders to time and nature. The facade tells the whole story, with boarded up arched windows, a collapsed doorway spilling weathered wood planks across the ground, and thick ferns and wild vegetation pushing up through every crack and crevice at the building’s base. The mortar between the bricks is crumbling, and patches of the wall show decades of wear and neglect. A metal corrugated building flanks the left side while a modest white clapboard structure sits quietly in the background to the right, still in use and contrasting sharply with its deteriorating neighbor. An old blank billboard frame rises above the treeline on the right, another relic of a busier time on this small town block. Lush green grass fills the vacant lot in the foreground, and a large shade tree anchors the right side of the composition. This is the kind of scene found in countless small towns across rural America, places where history lingers in the bones of buildings that the rest of the world has moved on from.

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