Diary of Abandonment

✨I’m Laura — photographer, storyteller, and preservationist. I document forgotten Americana — the homes, ghost towns, and cemeteries that still breathe with quiet history. Follow along and share the quiet proof of life they left behind. 📸

Houses, like people, aren’t always what they seem.

✨This, and your morning coffee. ☕️

2025 vs. 2019 Virginia📍

@iamlena___ @taufski4 Oh my, I can’t even imagine the joy you must feel!

Everyone pause!!!!!! My 4 year old autistic son just called me mommy for the first time and I am losing my mind🥹

@_Billy_Beck_ @sjgiardini I love that you cc’d me 😆 Beautiful old home!

@sjgiardini cc: @thequeenofrust

colonial revival in red springs north, carolina (1910)...

@clerpatriot I thought she got scooped up by pirates on the high seas

Who said Greta Thunberg three times? She is back like a bad case of scabies… She calls Trump a p3do, and claims she stands with Cuba even tho she doesn’t want Trump to liberate them…. Make it make sense?

@hollywood2pt0 @corsair8943674 Brilliant 😂

The “Epstein Walk of Shame” just hit downtown Austin TX! The first one appeared 3/2/26 just blocks from the White House Hollywood-style stars shaming Epstein’s connected elites - with QR codes to the files [They] won’t be able to walk the streets much longer at this rate‼️

@EthanBenard You’re doing great!

220lbs lost so far, and I’m still this fat. Think of this as a "Before vs During", not a "Before vs After." Read: Zooming out and looking all the way back on where I started from.... Helps SO MUCH. I have spent a LOT of time and effort trying improve my mind and my overall mental health recently. (Journaling, Therapy, Counseling, you name it.) Honestly, it is kind of frustrating to look back on how many times I've allowed my frustrations with small setbacks actually set me back FURTHR than they should have. This past few weeks for example, by not reacting in a crazy way to that bad weekend that I had, I actually conquered the urge to fast or jump to the extremes to get the scale back down. But in doing that, I showcased a much higher weigh-in, and then allowed the criticism from sharing that bring me down in a whole different way. I was very blessed to be able to speak with some friends at the expo last week, and they helped me realize that I need to focus more on how far l've come, and WHY I'm trying to reach the goals I've set for myself; instead of focusing on the small frustrations of the present, and allowing that to throw me off track the way I did. My friend said it in the most helpful way I've heard it; when we look back on this past month, it's just going to look like a blip. Since I'm able to get control of these frustrations and keep moving forward, a month from now, l'll be even lower than the new low that I set for myself in February. SO MUCH of this journey has been mental hurdles more than anything for me lately, and I'm incredibly grateful to have the people in my life that can really help pull me through times like this.

An unfitted kitchen, before it was trendy.

Good morning from the resting and forgotten.

@sisalgirl I really appreciate that!

@thequeenofrust You take the best pictures!

Good morning from the backroads of Burke County, NC.📍

@Willtom2788 Thank you!

@thequeenofrust Great shot!!!

@JackPCornelius It was a great era of tv

@thequeenofrust My favorite show as a kid from the 80s.

Things left behind in old houses.

@WayneMoranPhot0 They’re like finding little treasures

@thequeenofrust How fun is this?

@RickLor07826174 Mary Poppins too

@thequeenofrust The Wizard of Oz era

Things left behind in old houses. What era do you think it’s from?

@dissidntdad Woohoo!! We had a pet lamb for a short while while my girls were little. It was such a fun little animal to have around.

looks like I’ve just secured 1 ram and 3 ewe Corriedale sheep yearlings. the year of the sheep has officially begun.