A wall along the river promenade
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Shadow Shot Sunday
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Friday, 4 March 2011
Friday My Town – Things Beginning With ‘S’
Supermarket.
(School on the other side of the street.)
Shopping carts.
Sitting outside, silently waiting…
Sniffing around a bit… ;)
Self-scanning
Spring on the way – Seeds on display!
Sweet temptations I did not succumb to
Shopping bag on snowy sidewalk.
Smoothie with sea-buckthorn to strengthen myself
See what other ‘S’s people have shot
at Friday My Town Shoot Out
Thursday, 3 March 2011
“He Gave Us Eyes To See Them…”
Ginny (Let Your Light Shine) commented on my Watery Wednesday post yesterday (a green glass bottle stuck in the ice in the river) that it seems (I assume she must mean from other posts…) we don’t have much problem with litter here…
My answer was that “With the camera, one focuses on the bits that one wants to see. And editing gives even further possibility to cut out the bits one does not want to show.”
I have to confess that my camera is not really set by default on “the truth and nothing but the truth”. I think it’s more set on finding
“All things bright and beautiful … All things wise and wonderful…”
(follow the link for the full lyrics)
So unless litter happens to be sort of beautiful (like a green glass bottle magically frozen in a waterfall) - or at least extraordinary enough to cause wonder - my camera does not seek it out. That of course does not mean the litter is not there In Real Life. You just don’t get to see it, unless I choose for some special, odd reason to show it. Like today, because Ginny sort of requested it…
Scrolling through my February pictures, I realized that I did have a few more recent photos of litter. Things that did seem extraordinary enough to pass through my general “ugliness filter”…
Yes, things can be found in the river which don’t belong there.
Yes, empty bottles get dumped also in other places than the river. This one caught my attention, because on that day I was out “exploring”, hoping to find signs of spring… Hmm…
I bent down – ouch – and took the photo, continued my walk… Stopped. Turned back. Picked up the (empty) bottle and carried it to a glass recycling container. (Had just struck me that I’d be passing by one anyway.) Still felt kind of awkward just walking that short distance holding it. (Never did a lot of exploring of alcohol. Prefer tea!)
On closer look I could understand why the person who dropped half an orange might not have been too keen to pick it up… Yuck.
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Ruby Tuesday: 1968
“1968 - Like a knife blade, the year severed past from future”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966422,00.html#ixzz1FHdk8gOl
“It was a moment, 1968, that mysteriously stepped outside of time, one that was forever bringing the young to dimensions of eternity and the sacred”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966422,00.html#ixzz1FHeaD2FH
Photo/collage DawnTreader 2011
From the 60’s/70’s Swedish Design exhibition at the Textile Museum.
For more RED visit Ruby Tuesday
hosted by Mary at ‘Work of the Poet’
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