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Glaring Sun

Glaring Sun

A more traditional window is in this room.
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"Blaring" or "glaring"? Tee hee!

Talk about lonesome! This poor bed needs one of those lonely chairs for company. :-(
Agh, thanks Lynne!
no, the sun is glaring into the room.
>:-(

If SOMEONE had gotten here when this gallery first opened and had been paying attention, they would have seen that it initially said "blaring." Up and into your room right now, young lady! >:-(

And no dinner. >:-(

And no TV, neither, you sassy whippersnapper! >:-(

Motts, how EVER are we going to keep our child in line if you don't step in and smack her around every now and then? :-(
hahahahahahahaahahahahaha You guys are awesome.
Lynne, your scaring me :-O
~Me does need a short leash...
. . . mutter mutter mutter short leash and a large muzzle mutter mutter mutter . . .
:-) looks like my bedroom in Fairfield County, CT
Snicker,:
Ah, with all my love.
No One will get that!
Anyway, What's going on with this room. Was the bed really there, or is this staged . My bedroom was blue with yellow, blue pink and green curtains....G'night
Spanking, leashes?!? Is there leather involved here?
Damn it is LOUD in this room must be that damn sun that won't shush up.
Lynne, Motts, Me~ , You guys are the greatest you put a smile on my face!!
I would like a room with a view, if you don't mind
This shot gave me some sort of feeling that I cannot explain... But It totally grabs my attention and I want to put in on my wall in a nice black frame....
"Of all who hail thy presence as the morning, Of all to whom thine absence is night."
" . . . The blotting utterly from out high heaven
The sacred sun -- of all who, weeping, bless thee
Hourly for hope - for life -- ah! above all,
For the resurrection of deep-buried faith
In Truth -- in Virtue -- in Humanity -- "
I will stump thee! If not with Poe, with something else. It may take me months, years, ages, but 'twill happen. :-)
0- :-)
AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! =8-o

~Me, I am humiliated to see that in fact I WAS the first person to suggest a muzzle for you! In my defense, however, it was after Mr. Motts suggested the short leash. The second incident, though, was Mr. Motts.

Now I hafta publicly apologize. Geez, this is damned humiliating . . . . .

Sigh . . .

OK, ~Me, I am really, really, REALLY sorry I said that Motts brought up the muzzle both times when it was really only once. :-(

Humiliated, Abashed, and Humbled [for now . . . ]
"Spanking, leashes?!? Is there leather involved here?"

Heh heh!

Oh dear, it's 4:43 am in London and I'm in one of THOSE moods!
Don't forget the manacles and chains! Spike-heeled leather boots....
Oh behave!

*whimpers at the thought though*
Have you ever been an inmate ?. Sometimes the sun shines just right.
Anyone ready for a nappy so as to dream about the days gone by in this little room.
Why do some mental facilities have wire mesh over the windows and some have iron bars? Just wondering.
I don't think there was a reason other than varying designs... the older asylums tend to have the vertical "jail-style" bars over the windows or the crossed pattern here, and newer facilities and renovated areas usually have a dense metal mesh such as these http://www.opacity.us/image3589_screened.htm which seem to be from the 50's era and beyond, or the older padlocked bars from the 20's and 30's http://www.opacity.us/image526_vines.htm

The latter designs could be opened in case people needed to be rescued from a fire, the other ones were more permanently placed.
A thot for Motts. I remember it now. The tunnels either starts or ends in the memorial complex across the street from the main complex up on the hill. When one begins in c bldg. they go across the street and go under Haskell the newer bldg. and then proceeds under the employees home. It then progresses up the hill to the left hand side of the main bldg. complex and follows the entire main bldg. until it ends up under the nurses home that now houses the new condo complex. It's quite simple, is it not? Problem is that the tunnel under the home no longer exists. Just some thots.
Woah!

I had that exact style of bed in the psychiatric hospital I was in when I was 15. Plus a plastic covered mattress, of course.

Its an old hospital thats still running but will probably be shut down in the next few years.

Theres a museum in the basement with all kinds of neat stuff like a hydrotherapy tub, anti-self abuse mitts, and much more creepy things. The movie "Beautiful Dreamers" was filmed there too.

The worst part was the restraint beds and the seclusion rooms with the bubble-style veiwing windows. oh and the slimey shower floor.
two words" flip flops"
i can't imagine being confined to a room like that, i wonder how long they made the paitents wait in there.

*shivers*

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