Abandoned Service Station

great colors...dreamy. compliments -koushik

Remarkable think-shot. Nature never close anything down. Very easy to paint this

image,,same color all over,,,sure i like this,,story telling,,great one Jack

it all looks a bit out of place, mostly due to the modern surroundings I guess, and it's all the more puzzling because of it. What I like most is the subtlety of those pastel colors here. Nice one Jack.

I like the weeds. Seems like things just want to live, no matter where, no matter how. Of course, a good weed whacker will stop that!

 

My two-word phrase for this photo would be "ironic grace."

Classic. So much room to let one's thoughts take root. This looks recently abandoned, still somewhat clean and pristine, save a few weeds. The color or lack of moves me.

This picture seems to have netted a divergent bunch of photographers. thanks for all your comments. It occurs to me that if time is the fourth dimension, then this a fourth dimension picture. For many years I passed this as an operating service station and then, one day, it was fenced off and deserted as you see it here. In a while it will be gone, replaced by some other construction. But for me the old, operating service station still exists and animates this current manifestation (if only in my mind). Advancing age may rob you of your youth but it brings a few gifts and one of them is an appreciation of the change that constantly ripples through our daily surroundings. It leads to an understanding that nothing is permenent and that which we consider firm and concrete today can (and will at some point) be swept away.

what is interesting in this one for me, is how fast nature claims its place back after human are leaving. Even though the crevices are so tight it is enough for mother earth to show her presence. You are right that the most permanent is the transient.

"It leads to an understanding that nothing is permenent and that which we consider firm and concrete today can (and will at some point) be swept away"

 

personally I find that a very comforting thought