I’m a bit late to the party (had 200+ posts to skim through, here 
) but if I try to put words on why I, personally, like stuff like that, it might be because of the weird sense of stillness and calm it gives. Perhaps it has to do with how my autistic traits make me feel easily overwhelmed by sound, confusion, and the general rush of life – decaying stuff provides an odd comforting contrast with respect to this.
I also spend most of my time in a rural setting, and indeed there are too many rusty objects lying around. I dunno why, but some “click” with me way better than others; I mean: it’s not like an addiction that would make me shoot pics of all of them. Not at all. So I often crouch and look at them for a little while, trying to see if I feel anything special. 
Recently, I did a whole series in a nearby train station, and one thing that particularly appealed to me was the fact that one could believe, by seeing my pictures, that the station was not in operation anymore – even though it’s actually still a relatively active one. Well, to be fair, I mostly shot what was around the main elements rather than the bustling places, but still.
Obviously, there’s also the “mystery + time travel” effect, sometimes. My stuff from that post includes pics of a weird vehicle that we failed to identify properly – half bus, half tramway, with some front-end contraption to tow it? –, abandoned kilometers away from any place where we could have imagined such a vehicle being put into service. 
I have no idea if I sit in the right side of that fence. 
But at least I’m having fun.
On an entirely different topic, since there’s lots of animals around here:
The other day, I ran to grab my camera for a tiny caterpillar. But while I was focusing of that caterpillar, my mom started yelling “WAAAA WHAT IS THAT THING CRAWLING YOUR WAY?!?!?” (approximative translation from French). I turned around, and came face to face with a wolf spider carrying its (copious) offspring on its abdomen. It reminded me of some ennemies from the Nintendo 64 Zelda games:
(I don’t have a macro lens, but I did what I could…)
It’s almost cute how some babies are crawling from or to her. There’s one on her “shoulder”, and another one for off on the left of the picture.
Apparently they don’t spin webs, and hunt relatively large animals. 
. So, I seized the opportunity today, to test this cover and my weatherproof clothing.
