Green Goat Glass - Weekend reflections

Sometime back, Sissy and I visited the old Dammasch State Hospital Dump.  Not many people know where it is located these days.  There was an incinerator at the hospital which melted and burned most of the hospital's garbage.  That waste was then dumped along a ravine, now hidden by trees and undergrowth.

Today one can find beauty amidst nature's attempts to cover this scar.  Hidden in the moss and forest flowers you can find all kinds of things at the dump -- twisted glass, vintage jars, tiny glass bottles, along with spoons, knives and forks.

The melted piece of glass above reminded me of a mythical creature--sort of like a goat with a unicorn horn!  What do you think?

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Purple Thistle Whisker Flower

I saw this thistle pushing up through the roadway and suddenly in my mind's eye I rushed back into the past.

When my siblings and I were small we used these thistle flowers to pretend we were shaving like Dad.  Yep--I know, we were just kids--and I was a girl, but it was so much fun to whisk that purple brush around in the bottom of a cup of suds, then whirl it onto our smooth beardless chins.  Dad made shaving his face look like so much fun.


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Flotsam Heart - Guest Heart Thursday

Bits of flotsam swept across The Abandon's bleak roads can be magical.  Here Sissy and I found a perfect heart--gently shaped by the hand of some capricious strand of breeziness.

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Deer in Abandoned Glade

Sissy and I were walking along the skybridge.  I was in the middle of saying something, when Sissy grabbed my arm.  SHHHHhhhhhhh...she said.

I said, "What?!"  Silently she pointed to the ground below.

There she sat beautifully nestled in a glade of sun warmed grass.

She looked straight at us.  She didn't seem one bit afraid.

Then she got to her feet, nonchalantly turned toward the forest.

And was gone.


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