Splashed With Hearts -Guest Heart Thursday

Ned and his friends splashed hearts across The Abandoned--At first I was at loss to know how they accomplished drawing hearts clear up to this three-story ceiling in the pool area--then I saw the pipes!  Brave souls, I must say.

Sissy and I found these hearts on the side wall at the base of one of the stairways.

Just below the cause way, past the main auditorium, I caught this sparkle highlighting another heart.

Nature joined in, just as we were leaving--with this cool sunny heart in the corner.

For more heart art, photography and altogether fabulous heart stuff from around the world, visit Clytie at Random Hearts for Guest Heart Thursday!
 

WARNING: You shouldn't visit The Abandoned without permission from the owner or caretaker. If you do, you risk getting arrested for trespassing.

In the Woodlands

The old maples found in canyons surrounding The Abandoned are spectacular.  I often wonder about the things they may have seen over the hundreds of years they have been growing here.

There are enchanted stumps in these forests.  This one looks as like a doorway into an enchanted castle.

And here a window in what is obviously a fairy condo.

This lovely green thistle grew along the road just before the path to Deer Valley.  What a magical place.  I often think of the privilege we had as children--living here, playing here...what a beautiful place for imaginative children to live and play.

WARNING: You shouldn't visit The Abandoned without permission from the owner or caretaker. If you do, you risk getting arrested for trespassing.

Rebar Heart - Guest Heart Thursday

Many changes are happening as the new owners attempt to tame The Abandoned.  I am constantly taken aback by the beauty I find here...even when the bones of broken structures are revealed.

For more heart art, photography and altogether fabulous heart stuff from around the world, visit Clytie at Random Hearts for Guest Heart Thursday!
 

WARNING: You shouldn't visit The Abandoned without permission from the owner or caretaker. If you do, you risk getting arrested for trespassing.

Pretty Plywood Heart - Guest Heart Thursday

The graceful lines in this piece of broken plywood remind us this was once part of a growing tree.  And there in the swirls of the years, one can find a heart.

For more heart art, photography and altogether fabulous heart stuff from around the world, visit Clytie at Random Hearts for Guest Heart Thursday!
 

WARNING: You shouldn't visit The Abandoned without permission from the owner or caretaker. If you do, you risk getting arrested for trespassing.

Art in The Abandoned - Guest Heart Thursday

One can often find heart art in graffiti here and there in The Abandoned.  The collection of hearts with bright candy stripe flower above, are a delight to my eye.  This artwork is found in the lower loading dock area.

 

Walking on the ground floor through the jagged edges of a jaggedly bashed wall, Sissy and I  chanced upon some odd looking residents.  These are new.

It looks like some giant insect, or perhaps a fanciful being from the future--whatever it is, I love it and feel intrigued.

 In a nearby hallway there is another incredibly colorful work of art.  

 Birthday Boy Uter sems to have made his mark here.

 I adore the color of this piece.

It is the color of the Forgetmenots Sissy and I found growing outside in the cool shade of the trees.  

For more heart art, photography and altogether fabulous heart stuff from around the world, visit Clytie at Random Hearts for Guest Heart Thursday!

WARNING: You shouldn't visit The Abandoned without permission from the owner or caretaker. If you do, you risk getting arrested for trespassing.

Green and Grey - Guest Heart Thursday

With all this rain, the well-watered moss and lichen stretches over trees, branches, cement walls, railings and stairways.  I happened to catch this heart, left in the wake of that mossy green growing.  It is all a part of the magic of The Abandoned.

For more heart art, photography and altogether fabulous heart stuff from around the world, visit Clytie at Random Hearts for Guest Heart Thursday!

 

WARNING: You shouldn't visit The Abandoned without permission from the owner or caretaker. If you do, you risk getting arrested for trespassing.

Chipped Stump Heart - Guest Heart Thursday

The Abandoned has so many surprises--here you see a chipped heart in this stump.  The stump was a tree which was cut down in order to clear the forests here.  Though I understand why this is necessary--it is always hard for me to think of cutting down a tree. 

For more heart art, photography and altogether fabulous heart stuff from around the world, visit Clytie at Random Hearts for Guest Heart Thursday!
 

WARNING: You shouldn't visit The Abandoned without permission from the owner or caretaker. If you do, you risk getting arrested for trespassing.