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About a year ago we visited an abandoned psychiatric hospital, which was scheduled for restoration to a paranormal hotel. This was the last opportunity to see it in it's mostly original form. The name of the place is "Eloise", and it is historically significant if you'd like to Google it.

This was made from the inside of a patient's room. I looked out the window and was kind of sad for the people who lived there. Back in the day it would've been very rural with almost no buildings. I'm sure there were many beautiful scenes out there over the years, as the seasons came and went.

I processed this specifically to point out the contrast between the outdoor world and the inside world, the only opportunity for a resident to enjoy the former was to peer through a cage.

I don't often name my photographs, but I did this one. I call it "A Room With a View".

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Edit: Talk about timing. I got an email today about paranormal tours for this place. I doubt they got it converted and complete in a year, so they either never started or it's in progress.
 

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Long ago in a far off land somebody snapped this. I had just climbed a steep hill and was
wondering, I think, how do these peope do this all day. Old men with a an A-Frame on their
backs, walking all day among the hills and valleys, bring home anything that might be useful.
And me a young man, in good physical shape, can't keep up. This was north of what is now
the 38th Parallel. I was off all day to sleep or do as I choose, and worked all night, running
patrols, what we used to call, The Life of Riley.
 
-Oy- said:
That a helluva shot - love it!
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Thanks. It took several tries with that old camera, reminded me of my film days. The focus reaction time was terribly slow and I think it took seconds to write to memory with no buffer. The composition is as you see, it was only cropped enough for an 8 x 10 aspect for printing.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
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I don’t know the name of this flower but it pops up everywhere... side of the road, under trees, out of a crack in the asphalt...
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I believe that those are the “suprise lilies” (they have several names, also called “naked ladies) and they come up in the spring and you can see the greenery, but then they just seem to disappear when summer comes, until they just shoot up everywhere with the blossoms, which come in both pink and red (that i have seen).
They are related to an amaryllis, because they do about the same thing, and are barely noticeable until the blossom stalk shoots up and the bloom happens. This red one is also called a spider lilly.
 
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