Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Blue sheets fluttering in the summer breeze created wonderful changing shadow patterns!
NOTE: I have just learnt in the comments that clothes lines are outlawed in some communities in the U.S.
I was wondering why?
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Shadow Shot Sunday #88
Haiku Bones #7 ~ Peace
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Blowing in the wind
Shadows alive with sunlight
Mesmerising peace
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AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Fluttering Blue Shadows
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gemma...the blue shadows are simply lovely...makes me long for the warm summer breezes...love it.
A wonderful blue canvas for the shadows of clothes line and pins.
Here in the states there are many communities (including mine) that outlaw clothes lines.
Love your shadow shots, Gemma! What a wonderful canvas indeed! Yes, we can't have clothes lines here either and I do miss them! Hope you're having a great weekend!
Sylvia
These shadows are nice. The artistry and imagination of the lighting allows us to wonder about the shadows - are they something external to the sheets like a tree, or internal due to a changing configuration of folds and wrinkles. An excellent ant imaginative capture!
It's always so great to look around and find a shadow worth photographing. This one is very cool! I love to hang clothes on the line, too. Not this time of year here, though! We had a cold, frosty day today, but with sun.
What could be nicer than sun-dried sheets that also provide shadows!
So sad when communities ban such simple chores of homemaking, all because it offended some rich person's view of their space. My Mother in Florida lives in such a stuck-up community and she longs for the smell of clean sheets newly off the line...what will those communities do when the electricity goes out during hurricane season, when they're all down by the alligator infested lakes washing their clothes...do you think they'll hang their clothes out to dry on the lines then...and the answer is yes...we all did after hurricane Charlie.
Funny how class disappears after tragedy...we all worked together helping one another...it's a sad world out there, but I have hopes...right dear friend...
We certainly have had strange weather patterns here in the states this past year, snow in Texas and Arizona, frozen pipes and fruits in Florida, no summer in Michigan and a cool summer in Iowa with no nasty tornadoes to speak of...but I could use a bit of sun right now, aye...we get the blues here in the Midwest when you don't see it for weeks on end...but our Spring is getting closer, then you'll see a bunch of happy campers and my prose will be all sweet and sassy...IS IT HERE YET???
Have a wonderful week dear friend, so glad your bird buds are back, can't wait to hear my spring birds again...I live for the summertime...and sweet messages from my friend in a far away land...be well Sister and many hugs to you too!
sharon
Very cool how the shadows change as the day goes by.
I have a clothesline up in Idaho, but I'm on 10 acres there.
Here in Phoenix many Home Owners Associations don't allow them,or much of anything else for that matter. We're in a condo complex and they want everything to look exactly the same.No individuality here. :>(
Nice shot Gemma! Nothing beats the smell of fresh sheets straight off the line. They smell like sunshine!
I had no idea about that law in the US. I'm quite shocked about that. Where on earth do people hang their washing I wonder? Surely not everyone has a clothes dryer? People should protest and hang their washing off their fences or something. I cannot believe that people would find clothes hanging on a line to be offensive. That's crazy!
I have our sheets outside at the moment. Yours have nice shadows!
I agree with Tracy (Hey Harriet) stupid rule, there should be a protest!
there are places in Scotland where a lot of people consider outdoor washing lines to be offensive. We have a drying green outside, but its three flights down and never gets the sun so we usually hang our washing up inside. We don't have a tumble drier. I think though that people are going to need to rediscover hanging washing up as we gradually run out of electricity and other resources.
wonderful shadow shot. the blue only enhances it. ;-)
paz
Heavenly blue makes your shadows magical.
I love clothes line. I always have clothes line since am just a toddler.
Now, living in Sweden, I never dry my clothes during summer and only dry for 5-10 mins during winter and hang around my clothelines and hangers. Shame communities that have such stupidity.
Hope they realized one day.
TY for coming to my place and always apreciated.
Happy SSS---
oh, your photos and haiku made me feel so warm and peaceful -- just lovely!! thank you!
~angie
Lovely photos and haiku! It's as if the shadows are performing on a stage, amidst the sunlight.
fanciful blue sheets
dancing so seductively
through light and shadow
Gemma, do you sleep on those pretty blue sheets? Great shadows! :)
What a lovely collage of shadows!
Nothing nicer than the smell of outdoors on one's sheets!
A scene of peaceful reality. Clotheslines are frowned upon here! We don't seem to be getting smarter. Arg. Lovely words and photo!
Hello Gemma...We can't hang clothes in my town either. They are considered to be an eye sore or maybe it's because people don't want other people to think they can't afford a clothes dryer. I love the smell of clothes on a line.. Michelle
loved your pic and words, but loved your imagination even more!
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loved your pic and words, but loved your imagination even more!
:D
love the look of clothes on the line and when they are dry you gather them in your arms and inhale their scent. nice picture and haiku
niice one ! loved the haiku :)
Love hearing those sheets flapping in the wind as you would hear sails of a ship catching air. So peaceful floating across the water without the roar of motors.
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