I found an abandoned farm once while bowhunting in a state park. All the buildings were long gone, but you could still see where the garden plot had been, the rows were still visible under the leaves, as well as where the house had stood, a clear spot in the woods with a few enameled pots and pans showing through the leaves. It was about dusty dark, and the scene was both sad, and somewhat spooky.
It didn't help that about that time, a doe deer slipped up behind me, caught my scent, and snorted like a locomotive blowing off steam.
I'll probably get called a liar for this but it's true. I was running up the James River near Richmond one evening. As I came around a bend I saw something in the middle of the river and thought, "That looks like a Volkswagen."
IT WAS!
A VW bug, floating in the middle of the river. I didn't have a camera, but slowed down, dropped off plane and looked at it. It was rusty, and obviously had been long abandoned. There had been high water a week or so before, so I assumed it had washed off the bank somewhere upriver. I knew VW used to claim the bug would float, but this was sure the first and last time I ever saw one do it. I went on with my fishing, and when I came back it had floated up on the bank between two rock jetty's and stuck there, where it stayed for a long time. Someone eventually pulled it out and hauled it away.
