11 posts tagged “fence”
How do you keep calm?
Submitted by L33tchica.
It snowed today! YAY! husband got to sleep in, we drank coffee and watched the view, he suffered through it. Haha!
So of course I went out and took some pictures! Which answers the QOTD, I take photos, I look for beauty in every leaf, in every curve of a branch, in every moss covered stone. I keep calm by searching for beauty.
This was the theme this week in The Photo Safari Society , a look under your bed. I will not photograph this. Since I was a kid I have believed if it ends up under the bed, it is as good as gone. I have not cleaned under my bed for quite some time. There are dust bunnies down there that scare the cats. Water bottles dropped in the middle of the night, hair bands (not like poison, but like goodie rubber bands) I don't know what else is down there. So I found something on the side of the railroad tracks that I say qualifies. It is a bed (not mine). I took my walk along the railroad tracks today and I saw something I have passed 50 times and never noticed. A patch in a very old fence, someone used a telephone pole, railroad spikes as nails, leather straps, and an old bed frame. So, I am posting the bed frame, it is rusty and I am sure it had some kind of monster lurking under it at one point.
I layered my clothes as much as I could. It was chilly yesterday. The sun was warm though.
I went to my favorite antique store where they gave me a large scrapbook from 1935 with hundreds of pages filled with newspaper clippings about the Dion Quintuplets. They were an oddity back then, for a woman to have 5 babies, and lived through it as well as the babies. The children were basically taken away from the parents by the Doctor who said they needed constant supervision. He made them a sideshow attraction. People drove from all over to watch them play, eat, sleep, and cry. This is how these girls were raised. Reality TV before TV. I saw a documentary about them and interviews with three of the girls. They talked about how hard it was to be raised by nurses rather than parents. Who by the way never saw a penny from the sideshow racket. They were eventually not allowed to even view the children from the visitors area.
Sad.
It takes ordinary circle stepping stones and makes them look like something more than just a path to guide your feet to the front door. It lets the textures of objects transform into something completely different. It makes the texture of an object the most important thing in a photo, in color, texture is a quiet supporter but here it is on stage for all to marvel at.
yesterdays walk was a bit cooler than any before, but every time I told myself, okay, after this block, I will loop back toward home where the fire is warm and I will heat up a cup of cider to warm my cold face and hands. Then I would see something in the distance that pulled me toward it. I have lived here almost all of my life and it surprises me to find alleys I had never seen before. I must explore them. I zig and zag around town, people give me funny looks, dogs bark, and cats stalk me. I think I need to get a map of my town and take a highlighter, one color for each season, and trace the streets I have walked along. There are holes in my wanderings and I dont want to miss a feather, drop of dew, or late blooming flower. It will take me years to see everything, all within 3 miles of my home.
Next spring I am going to plant some fruit and veggies, put up a large laundry line.
We had a wind storm roll through the area yesterday, a few trees went down in my area and school let out early which my nephew was thrilled about. A tree fell on his street so I got some free wood for next year to keep me warm. So before the wind came in I went to the backyard and snapped some pictures. I was in my slippers and snowman pajamas. Tip toeing around huge mushrooms. I took several pictures of my monkey tree.
Then this morning it poured so hard I thought the roof would give in, then as fast as it started it stopped. The sun came out, I decided to shed the ducky pajamas and take a quick walk before it gets nasty again. It was so fresh out there, all of the trees that were so full of beautiful red and orange leaves were almost all bare. Some completely bare. All leaves stripped of leaves within a 24 hour period. The sidewalks full of leaves, drains clogged. I kicked them around a bit, then it started to cloud over again. I came home, heated up some water and had a cup of blackberry sage tea with a bit of honey harvested near my home. So, here are some photos I took.
