Surface & Surface Photography

I wonder if this piano, when new, had been played with sweeping music filling the house with lyrical notes. Or maybe a child was required to practice every day while she looked longingly out the window at the deep prairies.

This abandoned piano sits in a crumbled, forgotten two-story stone house looking out a window. The house has been taken over by wildlife—wild, huge birds nesting in the ruins, mice and opossums most likely inside what is left of the house, and then there are the billions of buzzing, bomber, big bees swarming outside.

I navigated through the bees, on the porch floor caving in and roof falling down, and into the front room past broken glass and the door forever open. Some of the upstairs was downstairs jaggedly hanging, and the flooring tender, crumbling into the dark recesses beneath the house.

Peeling wallpaper and exposed wooden slats like dry bones of the house are the once proud walls. Someone had loved this house long, long ago. Gazing through one window, I see the vast fields and the low lumbering hills. Standing by the piano, and viewing through the other glassless window, I see the trees, barn, winding road, and farm equipment overtaken by tall field grass.

Here is a photo I had captured of part of the house last January:

http://surfaceandsurfacephotography.com/2008/01/20/forgotten-prairie-house/

The stone barn that goes with the house is the second one in this post:

http://surfaceandsurfacephotography.com/2008/05/29/ye-old-kansas-barns-in-the-spring/

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