Once upon a time, from I don't know exactly when to the seventies, a couple of kilometers from the village of Liznjan, there was a rural, agricultural organization of the socialist/communist type. It comprised five or six buildings but I'll present only two in today's post.

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The buildings must have looked the same when they were freshly built, but now, after decades of abandonment, the decay created some differences.
I don't know what exactly their function was when the agricultural commune was active but they look like administrative buildings to me.

To better delineate the differences between the ruins I gave each one a fairly poetic name I invented for this occasion and I broke the post into two parts.

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Both buildings are surrounded by lush vegetation.

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Here you can see the exterior of the one I called "The House of Bottlecaps"...

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... becouse I found many plastic bottle caps in one of its rooms.

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It looked like the floor was deliberately paved with them in some places.

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The bottles somehow disappeared but it seems that their colorful caps are here to stay forever. I don't know how the bottlecaps ended up accumulating in one place. Maybe this was a party room of sorts.

There is the word "Love" written in a heart-shaped frame on one of its walls. This looks like a clear sign that local teenagers were or still are visiting the abandoned building.
The plastic bottles were probably collected to squeeze some money out of them by returning them to the supermarkets while the caps remained.

I visited the building early in the morning.

The sunlight was beautiful.

The roof is missing so, for the most part, the plants are nicely exposed to the sun inside just like on the outside.

In this photograph, you can take a look through a window of a room situated in the darker part of the building.

The Crematogaster scutellaris ants were running up and down the lower part of the empty window frame.

I watch them for a while. I can watch ants at work for hours.

This is the entrance. I mean, it's where the entrance door was situated when the building was in good shape. Nowadays there are more holes through which one can enter after passing through a barrier of shrubs and various tall herbaceous plants.

This is one of the upper windows. There is a nice variety of textures around it. You can see stones, old plaster, and a small area still covered with white wall tiles.

Blackberry shrubs are prospering in the sunniest places inside the house of bottlecaps. Rubus ulmifolius is the scientific name of this blackberry species. Its fruits are very sweet.

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Shadier places are dominated by ivy (Hedera helix).

This small Parietaria judaica plant is growing on the stairs that lead to the small part of the first floor that still hasn't collapsed.

Here you can see some fragments of that phantom floor that for the most part isn't there anymore.

This is yet another of the upper windows.

A spider was hanging near the wall but I wasn't able to get the focus on him. I only had a small, partially broken compact camera in 2019 when all the photos I'm presenting in today's post were taken.

Here you can see another quadrangular hole that can serve as an entrance.

At some point last night, while preparing the old photographs, I started playing in Photoshop. That's how this GIF was created. I needed something to break the routine of the editing process.

With this photograph, is time to say goodbye to the House of Bottlecaps.

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I didn't see many moths in that building. About a dozen, only. But they were kinda iconic, and "The House of Moths" sounded like a good title. Moreover, I didn't find any of them in the ruin presented in the first part of the post.

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In this photograph, you can take a look at the building's exterior. The vegetation was less exuberant here back than in 2019.

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Thanks to an unknown artist, one of the windows became the open mouth of a monster whose silent screams can be heard all day and night if you are in the right mood to hear imaginary sounds inside your head.

This is the place through which I entered.

The floor was abundantly covered with ivy in that part of the building. The growth of that plant looked like a green tentacle that was slowly entering deeper and deeper into the House of Moths.

Here you can see the place where the main entrance door was situated and the stairway that leads to the first floor.

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The House of Moths has a good bit of its first floor still standing ...

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... so I climbed the stairs to see what was there.

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Here you can take a look at the canopy of the nearby tree through one of the upper windows.

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These two shots show two small rooms there on the first floor.

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Here you can take a look at the vegetation on the top of the building. Since the roof isn't there anymore, the top means only the top of the walls.

This photograph was taken from the top of the stairway.

A bit further on my way down I took another shot.

This window is situated in the darker part of the ground floor.

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"Peace to you" was written in Croatian on one of the walls in the neighboring room.

Some delicate young plants were growing on the dirt in the corner.

Here you can see a hole in the wall. The photograph was taken in the same room.

Here you can see what I saw while peeking through a hole in another room.

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This is a scene from yet another room with just one horizontally placed quadrangular window. This type of room looks almost perfectly the same in both buildings.

Here you can see a young, delicate plant that was growing by the window.
At one point, while standing there in the gloom ...

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... an alien or interdimensional creature appeared right in front of my eyes.
The thing was floating in the air.
OK, I'm kinda joking here. Or more like fantasizing.
At some point yesterday, bored with preparing the ordinary photographs for this post, I took one of my old artworks, cut the creature out of it, and put it in a photograph.
Everything was done in Photoshop, of course.

This photograph was taken in the same room. You can see the colorful fragments of different layers of paint and plaster on the wall.

I was walking toward the sunniest room in the building when I took this shot. The branches in the foreground belong to a fig tree (Ficus carica).

You can see a ground-floor entrance and a first-floor window in this vertical shot.

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Here you can take a look at the sky. You can also see a nice reflection in the wall tiles on the first floor.

Unlike in the House of Botllecaps, I was able to visit the cellar here in the House of Moths.

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The moths were enjoying the dark, cave-like ambiance of the cellar.

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Hypena obsitalis is the name of this species from the Erebidae family.

The floor in the cellar was covered with a thick layer of mud.

The mud was hardened so walking on it wasn't a problem.

Since it was pretty dark down there, the exposure had to be pretty long. That's why this photograph which shows the interesting pattern on the surface of the mud, is uncomfortably blurred and kind of hard to watch. I like the lines on the surface very much so I included this bad photograph in the post anyway.
The following shot ...

... shows the cellar window.

A neat line was separating the upper part of the cellar walls which looked fairly clean from the lower and larger part which looked dirty or painted with mud.

That's all I can tell you, and all I can show you about the building I called the House of Moths for this occasion.

Besides the photographs, I also recorded a bit of footage while exploring the ruins. Late last night, I collected all those fragments in motion and made the following video out of them. Have a good viewing.

AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE VIDEO ARE MY WORK.