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Sunday, March 13, 2011

It Was A Wall and Window

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A new sprawling home is being built at a Red Hill property.
Leaning on the fenceline is this.
Somehow, I felt a kind of hollow sadness when I saw the play of early morning sunlight and shadow on this broken wall and window.
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Shadow Shot Sunday #147
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Used and useless wall
Wrinkled tattered and weathered
Like a broken life
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The Shooters: 1. DianeStanley 2. DawnTreader 3. Marcia
4. Jane 5. Heather 6. April
7. Gemma 8. Vicki-IN 9. Arija
Thank you Tracy for including my last week's Shadow Shot Sunday in your wonderful collage!

Hosted by Tracy @ Hey Harriet

12 comments:

Ralph said...: It seems as if this once proud piece of a home is now forlorn. The shame is that this wall might have liked to be reclaimed and part of the new home - alas...

Life continues though as the weathered wood and broken glass will be recycled anew, for another home to be...; March 13, 2011 8:39 AM
Millie Price said...: what a find! i am smitten by this wall w/window. it's beautiful. i'd like to snatch it up for myself!; March 13, 2011 8:57 AM
Spadoman said...: This is a great shot! I often think of what took place to make a place uninhabited. Your shot has the home torn apart and dismantled. Then, I think that you are half way around the world from where I live and see things are quite similar. We are all related after all.

Peace.; March 13, 2011 9:29 AM
EG Wow said...: It is a bit sad, isn't it? But it makes a great shot, partly because it stirs the emotions.; March 13, 2011 9:39 AM
Sylvia K said...: I find it sad as well, but it does make a wonderful shadow shot! Perfect words as always! Hope your weekend is going well, Gemma! Enjoy!

Sylvia; March 13, 2011 9:52 AM
Hey Harriet said...: As lovely as the photo is, it is very sad. Perhaps the old wall will be reclaimed and used for other purposes so it will continue to live on in another form. I hope! I hope you've been enjoying your weekend Gemma :); March 13, 2011 3:10 PM
nana_ang_poppaphil said...: Nice shot, perhaps it will get to take on another form like Tracy said. Love the shadows.; March 13, 2011 4:53 PM
BLOGitse said...: Hopefully that wall witnessed good lives of humans...; March 13, 2011 9:09 PM
Dianne said...: it's a pretty washed out color
I hope some part of it is used
lovely thoughtful post; March 14, 2011 12:29 AM
Kathe W. said...: perhaps the wals would be re-used as a fence or garden addition...nice haiku!; March 14, 2011 1:45 AM
Kelly said...: It does appear a bit forlorn, but what a lovely shade of green!; March 14, 2011 3:53 AM
Joan said...: Even though it is worn by time, it still looks useful. It is a bit sad. It is so pretty.; March 14, 2011 4:40 AM

Archive of Blog Quotes

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman