Search for Light

another twisted fairytale....

Really like this one. Just goes to show that there is beauty all around us...even in the most unlikely places. Sometimes the most simple things are the best things.

I totaly agree. I cant imagin whats behin that fariry door...

Yup I agree too, it definitely makes you think of a twisted fairytale.

Ya know, Motts, it just doesn't get any better than this. :-)

The old girl is litterally clinging to life.

Poor ivy plant doesn't know it's doomed. It might be as old as the building, as these (like wysteria) were once planted as ornamental plants.

wow, i cant get ivy to grow in my house to save my life .

Motts how do you DO it?? This is incredibly beautiful, look at that light just in the exact spot it needs to be. Just beautiful!

As somebody said above, this is very fairytale-ish. I LOVE this shot. The greens and the yellows are perfect.

This is a pleasant shot. Almost like looking at one of those quaint old cottage homes all over grown with ivy.

I know I've left comments on almost all of these pictures, but I just can't help myself. This is beautiful, and so serene looking with all the green. This place must have been really something back in it's heyday.

I can just see the little fairies flitting in and out of the little windows at the top of the door, through the ivy.....very surreal....

"And yet your beauty breeds a strange despair,
And pang of yearning in the helpless heart;
To shield you from time's fraying wear and tear,
That from yourself yourself would wrench apart,
How save you, fairest, but to set you where
Mortality kills death in deathless art?"

"Even as on some black background full of night
And hollow storm in cloudy disarray,
The forceful brush of some great master may
More brilliantly evoke a higher light;
So beautiful, so delicately white,
So like a very metaphor of May,
Your loveliness on my life's sombre grey
In its perfection stands out doubly bright."

Seems like old times. You're the best, Lynne! I still want us to wear derbies and dance someday.

that is so awsome i wish we could see what was inside.

VERY lovely, Motts! Wallpaper shot?

ooh! yes please mr motts - wallpaper!

pretty please?

lovely, love to see nature reclaiming that which is rightfully hers...

I would love to take a photo class from you, have you ever thought about teaching?

Simply beautiful.

Awsome shot! I especially love the ivy creeping down with no where else to go.

The spell was cast, and then the enchantment began...

This is so beautiful! I love how this door seems to be bathed in a magical kind of light. The falling ivy is like a crooked finger, tempting the passer by to come here for just a sec. I've got something to show you....Like Alice in Wonderland who was tempted by the bottle of potion that was marked, "Drink Me." This door does not need a tag. The viewer can hear it's whispered words, "Open Me."

I really like this one. Even in the midst of decay, there is still some life.

This is a great shot--the green wall makes it all the better. It is like a twisted fairy tale as the first poster said.

see im telling ya the vine have thoughts and feelings for example these ones are protecting the door

Tinker bell where are you?

Does Sleeping Beauty sleep behind that door?

Wonderful shot.. Hanzel and Gretle meets Nightmare on Elm Street...

The blend of the shades of colors is wonderful..

My first thought, looking at this photo was, "What a beautiful painting."

Jack of the Green

OMG, the colors are so pretty and calming...

beautiful....kinda like the rose in the cement thing!

I like this one ... maybe because I like green, but it gives me a real pieceful feeling :^)

HEY!!! thats my room

I'd like to transplant it and let it hang down from my large bookshelf.

These photographs always bring thoughts of something.

This is a photograph of the future of how we will live.

Someday there will be a built - in link between the plant kingdom and the manufactured structured wall's of the buildings that we will live in and work in. The plants can be used as a way of producing oxygen to breathe cleaner air and to help regulate the air temperature inside the buildings. People will also be able to live and work in a much nicer and safer environment. The Ferrari automobile plant in Italy is starting to do this in a small way.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

12:17 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007

oh now that is beautiful.

nature taking back over. wonderful.

God, that's gorgeous. Wonderfully gorgeous.

Isnt that just so lovely?
Its not all doom and gloom!

I see this as a sort of metaphor for life. We move daily done the hallway, searching for patches of light. Meanwhile, paradise is just on the other side of the door, if only we can open it.

A great selection of photos Motts -for your info -I think that this one was taken at Hellingly?