At a time when weather in the northern US has been a hot topic (or a cold topic), “Weathered” is an apt theme for the Photo Challenge. In the annoying tradition of making a word a part of speech it wasn’t meant to be, those of us in that part of the country have been getting (winter) weathered like crazy.
But my example comes from a summer day in the Vosges Forest of France, a place where you don’t expect to come across a chair of any sort while following a trail. This chair obviously had weathered more than a few nights in the forest and come out the worse for wear, something with which we who’ve experienced many days and night of sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures might identify!
This, that and the other thing 
I was fully expecting to see a ‘distressed’ door, Janet, from your French collection. A unique take on the prompt.
🙂 Always expect the unexpected, Sandra. Too many distressed doors from which to chose!
Oh, poor old chair! I’m guessing you didn’t rescue and take it home to be restored to its original glory. 😀
No, I think the original glory had been leeched out by the weather. It would have been nice to get rid of it, but it was quite a way to the house and not an easy one.
janet
While yours is a lovely photo for the challenge, Janet, I hope that whoever besmirched this beautiful forest by discarding their chair there gets a terrible pain in their behind right NOW!
I know what you mean. It was definitely an eyesore!
, I wonder “what were the better days” it has seen
Being whole and able to hold up a person. 🙂
janet
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I wonder how it got there! Sending warmth from Thailand
I wonder the same thing. There were several other chairs there in similar shape. If it were in the US, I would think some young kids were sitting there drinking, but here, who knows? I do know that whoever brought them in should have taken them out!!
janet
I wonder why the chair landed there… where is the chairman who used it once? we visited the vosges once to show our huskies real snow… it was a fail… one refused to leave the car, the other one had a short pee break and jumped back in the car… snow much fun (not) lol
Funny that huskies didn’t like snow. When I see them here in winter, I always think they look so relieved that it’s not hot. 🙂
janet
Even more weathered than my contribution to this challenge 🙂
🙂 Hopefully today I can get to more of the other entries for the challenge. Working and things to do around the house really are cramping my style!! 🙂
janet
🙂 Understand that!
Poor unloved soul. 😦 😦
🙂 True.
janet
I wonder who and why it was dumped and how long it had been there. It looks very old and definitely weathered
And it’s in such an odd place. It made a good photo, though.
janet
Sure did
Lovely Janet! We are getting snow now and an arctic blast again. Brrr
We’re getting rain that’s supposed to turn to ice tonight. Lovely! The temperatures are dropping, but apparently no snow. We’ll see. Cold is back, though.
Oh your chair is more weathered than my example Janet. So intriguing. A real writing prompt.
I hadn’t thought of that, Ruth, but it would be a good writing prompt.
I agree – good prompt for sure
great photo for weathered – and this one makes me wonder of the history of this chair….
I can’t imagine dragging out here and then just leaving it. Perhaps this was a spot a few people went to what…drink, get bitten by mosquitoes, ??? At any rate, they should have taken the chairs out with them when they left, even though I would have missed this shot. 🙂
janet
yeah – makes you wonder – like did it fall off the back of the truck – did some retired person set it up and he sued to read there while his dog played – and then they moved away and the chair stayed on the walk (oh boy am I thinking it up… lol)
Where it was, none of the above. No easy way to get in here, making it even more interesting. 🙂
good find