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. 📸

@nl75 No, she passed away at 63 years old. She had a massive stroke immediately after having open heart surgery. I was holding her hand at the hospital when she passed. Our family was wrecked.

@thequeenofrust Still alive?

Let’s see the swimsuits of yesteryear. My grandma, 14 years old in Baltimore, Maryland.

@Ferdinand641 Love love love this

@thequeenofrust My gt gt grandfather as a contrast. He’d been hunting. 1887 ish

@Guitanguran I think 1950?

@thequeenofrust What year?

@FriedScones We call that riding the testipony

A guy is giving a talk. 🤦‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️😆 I almost forgot it was the 1st Sunday of the month. Ifykyk… 10 minutes later….

@AdrienneLovely @HandyGingerGal Sponsorships and freebies make a whole lot more sense than buying all of those knick knacky items! Glad to hear she donates.

@thequeenofrust @HandyGingerGal Niki has so many sponsors that she donates food and cleaning supplies to her local food pantry regularly. Million+ subs on YouTube so she is paid and flooded with freebies. But go ahead and judge her for not being you. 🐐

All this "self care", but you're morbidly obese and eating nothing but trash. 🤦‍♀️

@patriotofga3 @PapiTrumpo 😂😂😂

@PapiTrumpo This timeline is one tequila shot away from making perfect sense. 😂

IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING!!!😎🇺🇸👑👑👑

@mattvanswol @GuntherEagleman Just this week, soft on crime strikes again in Catawba County!

@GuntherEagleman It’s not isolated, for example: Detabian Fortenberry of Charlotte NC has been arrested 57 TIMES WITH OVER 150+ CHARGES. He was caught on camera VIOLENTLY BEATING A WOMAN IN HER OWN HOME nearly 4 months ago. He's out walking free right now.

🚨 RELEASED ON BOND — ACCUSED OF MURDER 90 MINUTES LATER A North Carolina man with a long criminal record was released on bond for a previous offense. Police say roughly 90 minutes later he got into an argument, lay in wait, and opened fire in Charlotte. One person is dead, another injured. This is not an isolated incident. Similar cases keep surfacing where violent repeat offenders are quickly back on the street. Former FBI investigator Bill Daily’s blunt assessment: Police are doing their job. The rest of the system, soft bail policies, lenient judges, and legislatures that prioritize release over public safety, is failing the victims. Statistics show a large share of violent offenders are rearrested within years, many much sooner. When dangerous people are cycled back onto the street this fast, the consequences are predictable, and deadly.

@GuntherEagleman Here’s another example of a recent murder in NC, committed by a convicted felon (first-degree kidnapping and second-degree forcible sexual offense). She was kidnapped from her home on July 27, 2026 and later found dead. Leroy Loper, 54, was named as a person of interest.

@AndrewBragg5555 It’s awesome, I’m pumped

@thequeenofrust No, I do not. Great deal

𝕏, The EVERYTHING app

@Shempdog1776 @HowThingsWork_ That’s awesome work! I’m not sure how that cleaner she used work so quickly because it typically takes several weeks for it to whiten like that

@HowThingsWork_ @thequeenofrust saw this and immediately thought of you 🙂

Such a unique career path, but what a difference! 🙌 🎥 Cornwall Grave care

@KickRocks2026 I’m sending you big hugs from one cancer survivor to another

Day 14 of my Radiation treatment. This morning some guy bumped my bumper while it was pouring rain. I didn’t even get out of the car. I just drove straight to the hospital, memorizing his marker #. No damage, thank God. I’m still sticking to five small meals plus fruit. I’m up to 121 pounds now. I’m no longer on the list of worries. I had some nausea and a rash, but I’m good because it’s gone. A little hair fell out at the back of my head. I wore my shorter-hair wig and glasses, and no one recognized me.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Sometimes it’s nice to go, where nobody knows your name. Here’s your virtual cuppa coffee, tea or soda pop, iced tea, lemonade, watah…. Whatever wets your whistle. C[__]. @KickRocks2026

@awkwardgoogle The look on their faces made me laugh out loud

wildlife conservationist gently places baby owls back into their burrow 🦉

There is so much that could be said about this week's giveaway. I will simply hit the main points: A man, Jordan Salinas, who seems to dig Splinter Cell went from live action role play to live action and likely saved many lives in Twin Falls, Idaho at the @innoutburger in doing so. We celebrate that in today's litigious culture this man chose to risk his life and his liberty by doing the righteous thing. He held to his convictions by going armed and by running towards the direction of gunfire, of imminent danger. Reports are that he rendered medical aid after the gunfire ceased, as well. In honor of this man and that masculine sacrificial heroic American spirit that runs, not away from conflict, but that fights for the opportunity to get between evil and goodness, and effectively, Rascal is proud to do a little LARPing himself. Today, dressed as Jordan, Rascal offers up an FN Five-seveN 5.7x28mm pistol with fde frame and black slide! We thank @SummRidge for sponsoring yet another giveaway! TO ENTER this week's festivities: FOLLOW us and @SummRidge , REPOST or QUOTE POST this post, and REPLY to this post. Let's share this one far and wide, my friends! Good Luck Godspeed Keep Going and Go Armed!

@harveyspistols @innoutburger This is golden

@l_kutnjak20952 Thanks so much, Kathryn!

@thequeenofrust Hope you get well soon.

Today’s reading material to pass the time.

@Mormonger @earthcurated I thought LiDAR was a medical test to determine if you have a case of the Lieabetes.

@earthcurated You mean to tell me an ancient civilization was using LiDAR technology?

Archaeologists have officially discovered a massive, completely lost ancient civilization hidden deep beneath the Amazon rainforest using advanced LiDAR laser technology. A sprawling, pre-Columbian network of cities that completely rewrites human history.

@kateiswell But it’s vintaaaage

I’m gullible, but I’m not that gullible.

@tharpd38 That’s great to hear :)

@thequeenofrust Rotator cuff, a day after you 28th. No pain, doing well

Made it to church today AND got dressed all by myself. That’s a win for both my spirit and dignity.