Twirly Heart on Wood -Guest Heart Thursday

This is a heart I captured last time Sissy and I went for a walk in The Abandoned.  I shudder to think that beautiful place will soon be a pile of rubble.  But there will always be the woods and the walkways filled with beauty and old growth trees.  I am grateful for that.

This week has been difficult.  I had some devastating news.  My beloved husband has cancer.  Early next week we find out what our options are.  But in the meantime, we are trusting God and His goodness.

Many blessings to each of you.

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.

For Leontien

This morning's Guest Heart Thursday is especially poignant--dedicated to a young woman whose dreams are on hold.  She has been sharing her fight against cancer on her blog, "Four Leaf Clover".  As Sissy writes, when you visit Leontien's blog bring a tissue and a prayer.  I was so very touched by her words and story.  What a beautiful, brave woman she is.

This one is for you, dear Leontien--I am praying for you and for your family right now, this moment.

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.

Soil Sample Heart -Guest Heart Thursday

 

This is a soil sampling which, to me, looks to be in the shape of a heart.  Sissy Clytie, however, said it looked like mud cake.  (grin)  Chocolate, perhaps?

We've heard the reason they're taking soil samples, is because within the next month, they will be leveling this complex to make room for around 400 homes. 

Soon all that will be left of The Abandoned will be a pile of rubble.  I will miss the magic of this place.  The surrounding woodlands will still be there and I will continue to post many of the photos I've taken of this place, over the years.

Besides the high cost of running a building such as this even when it was functional, the terrible damage which tweekers, vandals and the destructive kids from nearby neighborhoods have inflicted on the complex makes it nearly impossible to salvage.  The Abandoned has now become an attractive nuisance.  I don't blame the owners for wanting to take it down.

It is a shame--the rare architecture of this wonderful building will be lost forever soon.

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.

Hearts, Hearts, Everywhere - Guest Heart Thursday

Hearts are everywhere in The Abandoned.  They march down the stairways...

They hide behind doors and dance over old plumbing...

They even decorate the trees growing along the edge of the building.  Both nature and Graffiti Artists have bedecked The Abandoned in hearts!

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.

Mossy Stump Heart -Guest Heart Thursday

The last time we walked in The Abandon, Sissy and I found lots and lots of hearts--this one in the top of a moss-covered stump, was the prettiest, I thought. I am sure faeries must live nearby.

I loved the angle of heart curling up onto the wall.  It is an eye bender!

Somehow the vandals have found their way back up onto the rooftop.  But I didn't mind this cheerful blue heart.  I am enamored with many of the incredible graffiti art pieces found in and on these buildings.

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.

Lamps in Yonder Skylight

 

This view is from the corner window in the office area upstairs.  I love these lights.  There is something so whimsical and symmetrical about them.

Here the sun sparkles through a piece of broken glass in the skylights above.  Beauty from brokenness.

An odd angle caught from an upstairs window.  I liked the way the angles looked in this photograph.

Down in the pillared depths below.  The shadow people once walked here.

It has been many weeks since I've walked through The Abandoned.  This summer has been a heavy one.  I hope to be online a bit more now that there's a light at the end of the tunnel...sort of like this picture here.


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

Queen Anne's Heart -Guest Heart Thursday

Here is another heart of Queen Anne's Lace.  I adore this flower--there are fields of them in and about The Abandoned.  It is beautiful to behold.  I felt blessed to have found this 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.  This is not an idle warning--see the article below.  Please be careful out there.