All I had wrought I abandoned to the faith of the faithless years

[teenybuffalo]

Images of beautiful decay: 30+ pictures of places on Earth where manmade construction is being reclaimed by the natural world.  They resemble my dreams and nightmares (the statue underwater is outright disturbing).

Rudyard Kipling, "The Palace"

Comments

[nineweaving]

Fabulous. A century of Engine Summers.

Nine

[teenybuffalo]

Right on. My own go-to reference is A Canticle For Leibowitz because that's the one I grew up on.

[alexx_kay]

Also, "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair".

[teenybuffalo]

Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

[asakiyume]

Those are beautiful--thank you!

[teenybuffalo]

It is my pleasure. They remind me of your pictures, actually, in your power to see the magic in small or ordinary things.

[aedifica]

Have you seen today's Google doodle? I saw it and thought of you.

[teenybuffalo]

Yes! I loved it!

[gaudior]

Oh, wow, so gorgeous and cool, thank you!

Do you know about this lj community:

http://abandonedplaces.livejournal.com/

It's basically this, only lots of it. Not all as gorgeous as these, but some very good.

[teenybuffalo]

No, I've never seen it before and it looks fabulous! Thank you for putting me onto it.