Whether or not you like the idea of war, it happens. It will continue to happen. As cool as it would be, it would most likely be impossible to have everyone in the world in agreement. There have been many brave people that have fought for our country, and died for something that they believed in and loved.

There’s something so interesting about how nature leaves it’s own unique visual impression on what we have built, and left behind. Time consumes our forgotten structures in incredible, beautifully intricate ways.

This is one of my favorite photos I have ever taken in an abandoned place, and one of my favorite memories. I took this photo in 2009, before this home eventually fell to pieces and the rest was demolished.

Construction of the Joplin Union Depot started in April of 1910. The building was completed by June 30, 1911, and attracted a crowd of more than 2,500 people to cheer the arrival of the first train into the station – Katy Train No. 83. The depot was officially opened on July 1, 1911.