A few weeks back, I spent the day exploring more of the back roads of Manitoba.  This was not my typical "pick a direction and drive" kind of day.  My goal was to do my annual visit to my grandparents abandoned homed and see what I can find along the way.  Sadly, my grandparents home was torn down (without my advanced knowledge) and is a topic of a previous blog.

These images focus on the amazing finds that happened along the way.  So many new abandoned homes that I had never noticed before in the area around Riding Mountain National Park and happily my great grandparents home still stands magestically in the middle of a farm field.  Not sure how much longer this home will be standing as the weather has taken it's toll on it over the past year.

I am pretty sure I will continue my annual trip out to this area and chronicle the homes I find.  I feel like this is an important part of Manitoba's history as many of these homes were early settlers as my grandparents were.  Year by year these homes are being torn down and each time a feel like a piece of our past disappears.

In the meantime, hope you enjoy these film frames.  These were all shot on a Pentax 645 medium format camera, expired fuji 160 film and scanned/processed by Caribou Film Labs.