Grayspaces are abandoned non-industrial structures, things like houses, churches, graveyards, barns.
Brownspaces are abandoned commercial sites: modern schools, factories, malls, shopping centers, industrial areas, amusement parks, hospitals etc.
Greenspaces are urban areas that have returned to the wild. *Not* parks, but where the land has recovered itself.
Urban Exploration is the avocation of exploring abandoned buildings in an urban setting. The focus of most urban explorers are large industrial buildings, subterranean tunnels and novelties (amusement parks etc.)
I am more attracted to rural exploration, and smaller structures. Homes where families once lived, barns, small stores, bits and pieces of the past. Places where I can pick up specific personal story lines, can find the ghosts of personalities. The gentle decay of the south. I'm not sure why I am so attracted to these places, I just know that I have always loved them. I began exploring in earnest in the year 2000, before that it was a few limited times, created by circumstance.
While I mostly explore rural houses, I have also explored a number of schools, a fish factory and two mostly abandoned towns (Belleville, NC and Repton, Alabama). The fish factory is long gone, the clown cafe and motel of Belleville has been 'leveled and improved', but the last time I was in Repton it was the same.
Slowly, everything changes. Vines grow, bulldozers come, pavement is poured. Progress happens and time marches on- but here, here a trace of what once was remains.
