165 Comments Posted by ladyhawke04008

Night prayer of the fallen angel.
"Oh God, tuck me in tonight.
But please not too tight.
For there may be dreams and demons I have to fight.
Til the dawn kisses me awake with her morning light."

Thanks for answering, Motts!
Very interesting!
I am amazed that with all the work that you put into this site. The researching and the traveling to these locations. Taking the pictures and posting them along with their histories. On top of all that, you are still able to find the time to respond to the questions we ask.
May you still have that time when you become rich and famous! : )
Your captions of your photos and the comments by the others on here to them, are like the dessert and night cap to a gourmet meal.
Although...I STILL always leave your table hungry for more!!!
(I promise, I will not put any pressure on you and mention Europe. I just couldn't do that to you : )
So, I'll just have to view the teaser pictures that you have tempted us of it so far on here, as the appitizers to a seven course meal.
Once again, EXCELLENT!
I'm grateful that you are open 24 hours a day for I plan to be dining here quite often! : )

In the thumbnail it looked like there was a cross on the door instead of this diamond, so I thought this is what happens when angels forget their keys and can't get back into Heaven.
Last resort is knocking on Heaven's door and having to wait til someone lets you back in.

"You're going to fall in love...whether you like it or not!"

This gallery was haunting, beautiful, and laced with sadness.
Your photos without people in them have such personality because of your talent at capturing so much in just one shot or taking it at a certain angle.
Having a person in them took them to another level.
Not better, just different.
I love them both ways!
Motts, I am curious though, did you tell Candace what to do in every shot?
Did you have an idea of the emotions that you wanted her to portray for this gallery?
Did she have any imput in her poses or did you tell her what to do for each one?

oh wow...
This reminds me of the darker times in my life...the only difference is I wasn't wearing wings...okay, or a dress either.
Sometimes things happen in your life that you don't have any control over and it can make you feel so helpless and all alone. I've only felt that certain darkness a few times, but when I was there, it made me feel like I was boarding an empty train where I am forever its only passenger. A train that runs only in the dead of night when you're trying to sleep and you just can't shut your mind off. My veins had turned into the icy tracks that it ran on. Memories that my mind couldn't stop, were what gave it it's terrifing speed. The coldness that settles in the chest is unbearable and feels like someone has shattered an ice cold glass of water above your heart. This cold black train is filled with all my unclaimed baggage that I keep trying to leave behind me at the last stop, but because my ticket is a round trip, it always keeps finding me.
This is a far cry from the Polar Express.
This is the Hell express....no lines...no waiting.
But...even though I wasn't wearing white wings and a dress physically, I was always wearing them spiritually, and that is what pulled me through those dark times and into this light.
A very powerful picture for me.
Motts, your photographs have a way of effecting the soul, and some bring comfort very much the way a special song or memory can.
I wish you would do a book!!!!

Hi Sara B. : )
Motts is kind enough to have two links about the EF at the beginning of his Enchanted Forest gallery.
I was one of those EFPS members that had really wanted to see it reopen on its original historic soil, but that was not meant to be.
So, whatever remaining structures are left, have either already been relocated over to Clark's Elioak Farm, or will be when or if money allows. People are even giving the farm EF figures that they had obtained over the years, so that they can be enjoyed by everyone.
Unfortunately, Willie the Whale fell all apart while moving him, his frame remains and the farm does plan on recreating him.
Click on this link and then click on EF Attraction Museum. It gives details and pictures of all the EF rides and structures.
Sara, you can see some of the scenes to Ali Baba on this site, along with Cinderella's castle and the white mice that pulled Cinderella's pumpkin coach.
http://www.websitesame.../Nostalgia/index.htm
A d.v.d at the farm shows Snow White and the 7 dwarves and it does have music playing in the background.

This newer site has an AMAZING gallery of pictures of the original Enchanted Forest when it was open. Some pictures are very old.
There are even quite a few of the scenes inside the Alice in Wonderland Tunnel, which was destroyed when the 2nd owners built the mall.
If you ever went to the EF be ready for a flood of memories to come while looking at these.
There are also very old newspaper articles on here.
http://www.ellicottcit...he_enchanted_forest/
Once again, a very big thank you to Motts for taking such beautiful pictures of this Enchanted Forest.
Hopefully, it may even encourage people to return to the farm more original EF figures that they have had in private collections, or at least give pictures of them so that they can be recreated over time.
Old photographs are playing a HUGE role in repainting and/or recreating alot of these EF treasures!

Motts~
I have to tell you, I had no idea til I saw your site, how many hospitals and facilities there were and are, that were built to care for people with T.B., mental illness, and all the other things mentioned on your site.
Your pictures make the viewer imagine what it might have been like to be a patient or employee at any of these places.
To walk these many halls and live in these many rooms.
To try to imagine what it may have been like to walk in their shoes.
It's also interesting to be able to read the history of them as well as your experience in them.
And Lynne~ Your knowledge in this field, along with the many others who also know from personal experience and have shared what they know, help educate those of us, like myself, understand a little better what it was like to be behind these walls.
Thanks to all of you. : )

What a beautiful shot! Such details to the windows.

I had the feeling that the door had been waiting for me all this time. It stood open for me as an invitation, but my feet politely declined... as they RAN the hell away from it!

Hi Sara B.
Unfortunatley there are not any plans of ever reopening the original Enchanted Forest. That is why they are relocating anything that is salvageable and bringing it to a petting farm near by, so they can be enjoyed again. These cups were from the teacup ride that brought you underground into Alice in Wonderland's tunnel.
I don't think the cups turned though, unless that changed after 1967, and they were also all painted different colors. A tea kettle pulled the cups along on a track.
These two cups, along with another one that has been recently donated to the farm, are being fixed so people can sit in them for photo ops.
In the EF there was a Snow White cottage which you entered. A figure of Snow White stood near a fireplace and behind her were the 7 dwarves beds. Some were bunk beds. A figure of Sleepy was still in his bed snoring.
Snow White, the bunk beds, and Sleepy are now at the farm, after someone located where they were.
In the cottage there was an entrance that led you down into the dwarves mine. No boat ride though, you walked down into it.
There were figures of the remaining dwarves and the gems they mined were lit up on the walls near them.
The only boat rides that the EF had that I know of was the Little Toot ride , ( Little Toot was also just donated to the farm recently along with the teacup and some other items), that rode around the lake near the mountain.
The other boat ride was the Ali Baba boat ride.
I think the little boats you got in looked like treasure chests.
The Ali Baba ride and Alice in Wonderland's tunnel were destroyed when they put the mall strip and Jilly's restaurant up. : (

It looks like the window is screaming.

This picture is actually more sobering than any of the "Don't Smoke." comercials you see on t.v. now.

Beautiful shot.
If only they could have spent the same attention to the people in this building, as they did in its design and construction. Then this place might have had a different history all together.
I wonder how many people stared at the ceilings in this place and tried to forget they were there.

Wow, Motts!
You are able to capture so much in just one photograph.
Love the angle.
Your site is addicting!