Cee gave us “Weathered Wood” as the Fun Foto prompt for the past week. I’m going to see if I have some weather wood photos in the archive.

Please take a few minutes to visit Cee’s page. Her photos are wonderful, and there are links to more photos and galleries of weather wood across the blogging community.

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70 responses to “Weathered Wood – CFFC”

  1. Amazing photos Dan you certainly love your wood 💜

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    1. I always have, Willow.

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  2. Not so hard to find weathered wood after all :D

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    1. Nah, there’s always some lying around.

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  3. Wow! Those doors are lovely. I think my favorite is probably the one at the top–the weathering pattern is so interesting!

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    1. That one is at Old Sturbridge Village. It dates back to the mid-1800s.

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  4. You found lots of it. I love the idea of a clock in that piece of weathered wood.

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    1. I hope to get to that project this summer. It’s not going to be easy, but I think it will look great.

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  5. You and I could have a long conversation about this because we have an old 1800’s barn which you would find pretty interesting. The boards on one side have weathered and there is a pink color showing while inside the stalls we have some rot in the floors. Oh, to be able to talk with you about it. :-)

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    1. Old barns are amazing. I was so sad when they tore down about 15 tobacco sheds to build an Amazon warehouse.

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      1. Just what the world needs, more Amazon.

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  6. What an interesting photo prompt! I really like the wooden bridge.

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    1. Thanks Wayne! This was a fun search.

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  7. It’s shows Dan 💜

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  8. Doesn’t it always seem as though wood has a story to tell? My favorites here are the ones you describe as south of Jacob Wirth’s. The old wood with the gold numbers and the fancy painted columns look like a place where no one ever heard of a smartphone. I like it.

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    1. Those doors are still there, Maureen. Sadly, Jacob Wirth’s (favorite German restaurant) is no longer. Wood does seem to carry a story with it.

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  9. You certainly know your weathered wood! The slab in the second photo looks like termite damage?

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    1. I’m not sure if it was termites or some other insect, Liz, but it took forever to clean out those holes (and I didn’t want to think about it). It made a wonderful coffee table.

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  10. Wonderful weathered-wood photos in your archives, Dan!

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    1. Thanks Dave. It was fun searching for these.

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  11. I hope Cee didn’t think they were making the prompt a hard one – little do they know, we love weathered wood!!

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    1. She could run this one again, GP. I have more ;-)

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    What a great selection of weathered wood. The park bench is so sad, but the first weathered door is just beautiful!

    The train car that was repurposed into a hunting cabin and given a new home in the woods….I’d love to see it now. Can’t wait to see your clock later this summer! Times-a-wasting Dan, git ‘er done!🤗

    I agree with Maureen….there are so many stories behind weathered wood, just as there are in the wrinkles of an elderly person’s face and hands.
    Ginger

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    1. Thanks Ginger.

      That train car is in a Trolley Museum in Western PA. From what I could tell, there were no plans to restore it. I haven’t gotten a good start on projects this year. I need to ramp things up pretty soon.

      The weathered wood, especially doors, always makes me wonder about the years of service those pieces saw. How many people walked through those doors?

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  13. Hi Dan – it’s always interesting looking at weathered wood – and the sculptured uses that it can be put to. They found a 5,000 +/- year old piece of Fenland Oak … which they’ve turned into a table – of a mere 13 metre length – it’s in Rochester Cathedral at the moment. Sorry – had to mention it! Cheers Hilary

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    1. Thanks Hilary! That must be an amazing table. You’d need a cathedral (or a castle) to find a home for it, but it must be beautiful. How the wood changes in nature and then what people do with it is an interesting process.

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  14. Great gallery Dan :)

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  15. A good extension cord and the reciprocating saw also work well on large tree roots creeping into the garden. Once dirt is out of the way…

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    1. I learned that lesson when trying to run conduit and drain tile through our yard. ;-)

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  16. I have so many questions, Dan!
    Is the wood weathered like than due to the amount of rain y’all get, or do you live near the ocean, or both?
    Is that slab you purchased the old one you made the clock out of a while back?
    I had no idea there were wooden trains! That’s so cool that the guy used one for a cabin. ☺️

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    1. Most of the damage around here is due to moisture. Paint fails (or was never applied), water gets in, insects follow and after a few decades, the cycle is complete. The slab at the top is one I turned into a coffee table. The initial story is here – https://nofacilities.com/2013/06/23/listening-to-a-slab-of-wood/ – My boss loved that table. He retires a few years before me, and I gave it to him. The other long slab is one I made into a coffee table to replace that one. When I retired, I gave it to a friend at work you can see more about that one here – https://nofacilities.com/2019/03/24/coffee-table-made-from-trees/

      The chunk at the bottom is one I hope to turn into a clock later this summer. I haven’t made a good start on that yet.

      Wooden train cars were popular until the early 1900s.

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      1. Wow! Thanks for all the answers and info! Here at the coast, it’s almost all weathered wood, what that isn’t brand new condos or other buildings.

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  17. Lots of great weathered wood here, Dan, some of which are quite unusual. I wish I weren’t looking at them on my phone so they would be bigger.

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    1. I often have that issue, Janet. Especially since my phone is fairly small.

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  18. These are pretty wonderful, Dan. The older sections of our downtown still have doors like ‘south of Jacob Wirth’s’ and ‘tough duty.’ I’m not sure if they are part of the historic district or what, but most of the people that own the buildings now have kept the wooden doors. Thankfully.
    I am so looking forward to see your clock project this summer!

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    1. I like it when people keep the old doors. It adds a lot of charm. I hope to get started on that clock and one other project in July.

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  19. What a fantastic post filled with weathered wood. There is no way I’m can begin to pick a favorite. I notice you even displayed a little project you did. Way cool Dan. :D :D

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    1. Thanks Cee. I’ve made a few things out of weathered and insect eaten wood. It has a certain charm.

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      1. I can imagine it would have a lot of charm :D

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  20. Of course you have weathered wood photos. I love the doors and rail cars. I’d love to make a room out of one of those.

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    1. Wouldn’t that be cool ?

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  21. Beautiful photos Dan! I have been out of the loop for a long time now…love that you’ve published 3 books already! Congratulations!!!!

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    1. Thanks. I was happy to see a post from you in my inbox. I though WP had dropped me.

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      1. Nope, just me being really busy and not writing! Glad to see you are!! :)

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        1. After I retired, I finally had enough time.

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          1. So happy for you!!

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  22. When I lived in Connecticut, I remember having to discourage carpenter bees. Those guys made a mess. Great tie into the weathered wood prompt.

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    1. They do make an awful mess. We only have two of three trim boards (on the porch) that aren’t PVC. I plan to replace them the next time they need to be painted.

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  23. I love the look of old weathered wood. Rotting wood… Not so much.

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    1. There is a difference, but there’s often not much time in between those two states.

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  24. Did you ever see the cabin that man made from the old train car?I’m curious about how it looks. Did the carpenter bees go for your piece of wood instead of the house?

    Great series and excellent images of old wood.

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    1. That cabin is in a Trolley Museum in Western PA. I took that picture 😊 the bees did go for the wood, but it broke into pieces. I have the give them another one.

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  25. Dan, I love seeing photos of your woodworking projects. I don’t remember the one about a clock. Whether project or random photo, these were all a treat. Hugs.

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    1. The clock hasn’t been started yet. I bought the wood at a show in January. I hope to build the clock this year.

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  26. This is right up your alley. Well done on the prompt, Dan. I loved the photos.

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    1. Thanks Jennie. It was fun searching for these.

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      1. I bet you had many from which to pick!

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  27. Gotta love it, Dan!! Awesome pics of “weathered wood”!! Unfortunately I can identify with some of them…….

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    1. Some of those are things you don’t want to see on your property.

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  28. HI Dan, some great pictures for weathered wood.

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  29. Beautiful! Unsurprisingly, I love all the door shots the most. And that bench! Have a good doorliday!

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