On December 30th, somewhat on the spur of the moment, I decided to head out for a day trip. It was not looking great in the morning when I headed out. It was overcast and dull and quite breezy. My friend Gerald decided to come along. We spent most of the morning driving around, somewhat reluctant to get out of the truck and try shooting, as it was so windy. Eventually by late morning the wind died down. We found ourselves out at the old stone dance hall near Shandro. We spent and hour or so here making some photographs...
After that we continued north to try and find the old Russian Monastery. I had a pretty good idea where it was, but wan't sure that I could find it. Eventually we stumbled upon the right road and found our way to it. This place was originally constructed by a group of Russian Monks. They attempted to scratch out a living in the bush here. They had no crop land, only a cluster of small buildings and a couple of clearings for vegetable gardens. Not much of a surprise that they gave up on this venture and moved back to Eastern Canada in the early 1960's. This place is particularly eerie in the summer as a pair of Turkey Vultures roosts somewhere nearby and is constantly soaring over the abandoned site. This time around we saw no signs of life, except for a few rabbit tracks in the snow...
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