Ruins -- a flaneur in the rustbelt

Went to the Quad Cities this weekend. Damn -- old river towns are great. Especially the thrift stores: you can find things there that would go for $$$ in shops on either coast. But don't ask me where I went for my thrift scores. It's secret.

Anyway I went for a run on the Mississippi River and got a shot of this ruin. Turns out it was the only part standing of a factory (John Deere?) that was once a quarter-mile long. This picture doesn't really do it justice: it just looked so ominous standing there in a field of empty concrete space.