Moonlit Facade

They look like mouths full of fangs.

This I love

looks like a arched door in the vines, absolutely beautiful.

Richard - yes!

looks like piano keys if you look quickly

I love that the ivy taking over the building!! (And it also looks like the building is eating the ivy!!)

I heart this picture!

And look up at the top right on the vines; it's as if a tree is growing up there!

Mother Nature reclaiming what once was hers...

Jude!! I never noticed that....Awesome! It certainly does look like a tree....They'll grow just about anywhere, wont' they....I do suppose it will fall one day....kind of a precarious perch, there...

I just brightened up the photo (it came out stunningly beautiful) I also enlarged it to the point where it became distorted, but enough to see that there is a tree in there. It looks like it's growing out of the window.

Amazing what nature can do..... and yes Puddleboy now that I look again it does look like it's coming out the window doesn't it?

These scare me...No wonder the people admited there were crazy, i'd go crazy if i was locked in a scary place like this....

Katryna - People who were admitted to these institutions were mentaly ill long before they entered the doors. Do you honestly believe that these buildings in their now abandoned state looked the same when they were the homes to hundreds, if not thousands, of mentally ill people? Or would you rather they were wandering the streets, uncared for and unmedicated ... arguing with the air or even more demeaning behaviour? At least in these hospitals they were fed, sheltered and counciled by people who, for the vast majority, wanted to help them be what society considered "passibly normal" at the time. Granted, there were a few exceptions, but I'd rather not go there.

*~Sheepishly steps off of Lynne's SoapBox~* Sorry, Ma'am ... just borrowed it for a second.

{Runs to Serrena and bows, hands her an ice cold mint julep with a spring of mint, sits at her feet and beams in admiration}

*~Blushes five shades of pink to red and sips her mint julep~* What can I say, Lynne, you're contagious.

But ya had to have it in you first, woman! Ya got moxie! (Not Mottsie.)

Comming from you, I take that as the compliment it was meant to be.

My ex-husband says I have "brass ovaries."

'Twas a compliment, indeed!

Love the star-trails! I wouldn't want to risk leaving a digital camera on a tripod outside a derelict building at night, mind you.
Which is probably why I don't take really excellent shots like this one. Sigh.