Theme Day: The beauty of decay

Today’s City Daily Photo theme post is “the beauty of decay.” This long-abandoned cabin in the woods is my response. A tiny one-room shack, it caves to the effects of nature’s persistent drive of reclamation.

As the boards molder and succumb, vines, grasses, ferns, and bushes weave up from the cabin’s lost floor and through gaping holes toward filtered forest light.

I passed this little cabin on a driveway monthly for over a year and a half before I noticed it out of the corner of my eye. There’s a beautiful, sturdy house and a serene pond nearby. And this cabin slowly returns to the earth and fades from memory.

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9 thoughts on “Theme Day: The beauty of decay”

  1. You are right, it’s slowly returning to the earth and that’s just wonderful! Lovely shots, great entry on the theme.

  2. How wonderful, it has really become a part of the landscape! I wonder what it was like in its full glory, and about the lives that passed through (if only those old boards could talk:))

  3. I missed this “decay” shot. But it looks more like Florida than other decay photos I saw. If you let something go in Florida it takes very little time before it is covered with vines and weeds and disappears into the misty aura of nothingness.

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