Hi All ~ my friend Barb called me from Canada the other day and I promised her I would get back to blogging so here I am!
Unfortunately I have no pictures to post today but I did have some thoughts that I decided to blog about. Tonight I went with my sister to our aunt's house. We had a lovely dinner and some great conversation.
Driving home I noticed several buildings I thought seemed lonely. In downtown Knoxville there's an old L&N station. Once a lively train station, it later became a restaurant and now has a sign saying "Office Space for Rent." This struck me as sad that a building with so much history would now be (at least partially) vacant.
Another structure is the Sunsphere on the old World's Fair site. The tower is topped with a sphere made of bronze-looking mirrored panels. During the 1982 World's Fair it shone so beautifully. Now it sits dark. It seems lonely.
Lastly, a building on a highway used to be a hotel. The lower floor is now home to a thrift store but the upper windows were dark. Maybe there are offices on these floors, I don't know.
As I was driving I thought of the ghosts of bustling crowds, laughing travelers, people breathing life into these spaces. It felt sad to me to see them dark.
Are there spaces around you that you've seen time and change take the life and light from the building? Do you think ghosts inhabit the spaces? Do the walls remember? I'd love to hear about the places you know!
I'll try to get back here with pictures soon. Thanks for stopping by!
