#whiteredgold

Criștioru de Sus. România. 2017 The entrance to the wooden barn was secured with a piece of wood. How many times have cows or water buffalos passed the threshold of this door? Now, as the building ages, its walls are progressively covered by field flowers. A blue metal recipient for measuring exact volumes of milk hangs redundantly from a bent-nail hanger.

Criștioru de Sus. România. 2017 Taking a close look through the small window of the barn. Someone told me that old people would start filling up their houses and barns with hay. Usually farmers would use the lofts for storing hay. Instead, the elders, weak of old age, toss all their at ground level.

Criștioru de Sus. România. 2017 Old wooden roadside cross in the meadows above the village. The ruined wood still bears the visible sign of the cross and the inscriptions according to Orthodox Christian tradition.

Criștioru de Sus. România. 2017 In the neighborhood I found another deserted barn. This one was built out of stone and had old wooden doors hanging oddly from their hinges. The tall grass was again a reminder that no one lives in the village anymore.

Criștioru de Sus. România. 2017 A tiny stack of hay by the barn. Probably this year someone will come to cut the grass one more time to honor this land. As for the hay, it seems like no one needs this once-valuable material.

Criștioru de Sus. România. 2017 In Criștioru de Sus (Upper Crishtioru) the grass has grown so high that it sometimes reaches the roof.

Criștioru de Sus. România. 2017 The village is empty. It is impressive to pass by so many houses and to notice that the grass had not been cut, not even trodden. All the doors were locked. All the fences were shut. In this place that by structure would have to be inhabited was instead silent and desolate. Desolate in the sense that there were no people, but the place was still pleasant and provided a feeling, a reminiscence of those happy, lucrative days from the past.

Almaș. România. 2016 In a window facing the street a superstition-full creature spying - the black cat