Lurchers in the post-industrial landscape

[bunn]

Arsenic mining is forever... Hound atop arsenic spoilheap, still splendidly bald despite about a century of abandonment.  The heap, not the lurcher.  The lurcher is not particularly abandoned.


Poisonous spoilheaps are apparently a LOT of fun.

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Lovely loony lurcher pics!

But I'm seriously impressed by how nothing - nothing at all! - grows on arsenic spoil. Wow.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

There's some thin, sad grass, and the odd bit of moss or lichen - and I suppose sand is quite a difficult environment, even if only salted.

But it is odd. I mean, this is an environment so damp that lichen and moss grow on my car!