abandoned by giants

[asakiyume]

I don't know what it is: giant pillars, two rows of them, march along. They support two-foot-wide tracks up top, like for an aqueduct, or some other transport system of some sort.



You can see the trees reclaiming the space around the structure. Here a tall-growing juniper makes lace against the face of a pillar.



Rabbits and squirrels live here now.

How tall it is.... Here you can see the parallel tracks, high above.



...and yet, it starts out at ground level. Then, the ground falls away, so that the final pillars are holding up the tracks fifty or so feet in the air.

Because it does start out at ground level, you can walk along those cement tracks. It feels innocent at first--there is the ground, a mere foot below you. Two feet. Three... and the path is wide; no threat of falling, unless, looking down, thinking of your height, you become dizzy; no threat unless your imagination tells you what falling will be like.

Here's the view from up top.



ETA: July 3, 2018. It has now all been torn down. Sic transit, etc.

Comments

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

It just makes me think about how quickly nature would erase most traces of human existence if we vanished tomorrow.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I find that amazingly comforting--the thought that nature can (and will) reclaim abandoned spaces.

[suzan-s.livejournal.com]

That is interesting! It definitely looks like an abandoned roadway of some sort....or something!?!?!

The photos are cool. I especially like the one showing the trees growing up in the middle of the two cement "rails"

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes! The trees wasted no time :-)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

It looks like a walkway somewhere. To a portal in the sky, perhaps? But the portal's disappeared.

I wonder what it is? The parallel tracks between the pillars look like a cathedral vault that hasn't been decorated yet (aside from the juniper, anyway).

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

There's a giant smokestack nearby. But you'd feed a smokestack fuel from beneath, not above, so... I don't know at all.

I like the idea of a portal to the sky.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

That is intriguing!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I feel like I understand its past purpose about as well as the rabbits and the squirrels do....

[out-totheblack.livejournal.com]

How totally awesome. I wonder if it was part of an old rail way system or was supposed to be. You find the coolest old things out in the woods where you just know no one has been before.

What country/state is that in?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's in western Massachusetts. There's a train tracks nearby, so maybe at one time or another there was a connection to this--but there's no hint of actual metal *rails* here.

[deponti.livejournal.com]

Oooh...lovely..where did you find this?

[deponti.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I got my answer when I looked at your other comments.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Track henge?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

TRACK HENGE!

(I love your icon! I love that little dragon!)

[skogkatt.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is so neat! I wonder what it was meant to be used for?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I really can't imagine. It goes from the side of the hill out into the air--why? Such a mystery. Maybe the tall one knows. He has access to mysterious knowledge about structures.

[ckd]

The view from below makes them look like ALWEG monorail tracks, but they also look like they're too close together to be any such thing (and I don't see any signs of the power rails I'd expect to have been there if they were).

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome if we had a monorail here in western Massachusetts! But you can see the extent of the track--it's less than a quarter-mile, maybe a tenth of a mile? So strange.

[jme-woodstream.livejournal.com]

Your lovely photos and shared dreams make ME feel like I'M dreaming, but you're doing all the work.

I LOVE YOUR BLOG.
(And now, I've managed to get you to spread your goodness over to MY blog! Post's up!)

Hugs,
jme

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The blog love is mutual!

Here is a feed for your blog, here on LJ:

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/thoseslippers/

If people add this to their friends list, they can read your blog on their LJ friends page <3

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Gawd, you're brave.

That's looks like the kind of thing we'd find at the ordnance factory...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Not so brave--I only walked out as far as that tree on the left, that's leaning right against the path. Then I clutched at that, turned round, and came back.

One day, though.

Ordnance factory, eh? hmmm...

[pjthompson]

What a wondrous, mysterious thing. :-)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I know! Strange wonders, all over the place. And this one is so big.

[pjthompson]

I wonder if you know this website: mysterioushills ?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I did not! Thanks for the link; I will take a look.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

How fascinating? It does look at though it might have carried a railway track -- though are the concrete rails far enough apart? But then why does it stop halfway to nowhere?

If you ever solve the mystery, you will let us know, won't you?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I will have to find out somehow. The history of the complex that this is part of is well known; it's just a matter of finding someone in the know.

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

They're very similar to the ruins of Roman acqueducts, Greek temples -- or to the Numenórian structures across Middle Earth in Jackson's LotR.

There's a book along the lines of what Terri-Lynne mentioned earlier: how quickly different human achievements would disappear (aside from Shelley's lament in Ozymandias, "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" It's Alan Weisman's The Earth Without Us. The fragility or endurance of some things will surprise you!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'l have to take a look. Radiation endures, I guess, but we can't see that. Plastics, people say--and yet most everyday plastics are very brittle and soon fall apart, in my experience.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

As always, <3

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hee--glad you enjoyed.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

It's like a bridge ... over the woods, I guess.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's so people can experience a bird's eye view.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

The first and the third picture made me think of the Wall in G R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I've never read Song of Ice and Fire (the number of things I haven't read is astonishing...)--what role does the Wall play in the story?