Outbuildings of West Sonoma

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My favorite buildings around here tend to be ruins, left to dissolve back into the land from which they sprung, not unlike orchard tree prunings or rusted jalopies in a culvert. There appears to be a consensus among local commercial farmers to not repair or maintain buildings once their function has been rendered obsolete by improvements in standard or technology. New houses or mobile homes are sited alongside rotting, derelict homesteads, with no attempt to bridge the old with the new beyond the practical exchange of preference. The old structures are left to the elements like seashells and begin to occupy the territory of landscape aesthetics.

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