Earlier this year I decided to take a walk in my neighborhood, which basically means a couple of villages and a lot of forest, just to check out things. For me one of more interesting things to observe are the traces from our ancestors. In the village where I grew up it’s pretty easy to find old paths in the middle of nowhere, traces of buildings that are 300-500 years old, etc.
Here, close to Umeå, it’s more difficult to find these traces. My guess is that so many things have changed that most of the signs have been destroyed.
But it’s fairly easy to find traces of what happened 20-80 years ago. The picture shows one such example, the barn has been abandoned for a few years but it still has a roof that is pretty OK. It’s sits on a field that also seem to have been abandoned for a few years. Inside there is some agricultural equipment that haven’t been used in many years.
So what’s so interesting with this? Well, if you consider the work that it takes to clear a field in the middle of the forest, then the amount of work it took to earn the money that was required to buy the equipment … and now … nobody cares. I wonder what those who originally cleared the field and bought the machinery would think if they could see this.
