Saplings in the ruins of what was once the Detroit Public Schools book depository.
A truly amazing blog post from Sweet Juniper and accompanying Flickr photo set.
Downtown Detroit has an astonishing number of abandoned buildings. And not just shabby falling-down warehouses, either. Many once represented some of America's most majestic architecture.
There's a whole subculture that likes to explore urban ruins, and Detroit exerts a magnetic draw over these people. Do some google image searching sometime; the photos are beautiful and haunting.
Among the most striking "ruins" photos I've ever seen - these of the DPS book depository. Trees, growing in mounds of abandoned, rotting schoolbooks. A graffito of a book phoenix, rising from the ashes of burnt school supplies. It's almost too surreal to be true. The subtitle of the whole thing should be "Look, We Can Only Make A Metaphor So Obvious Before It Stops Being A Metaphor."
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