Every so often on this blog, I strip things back to first principles, and play around with them again. Every so often that means posting just one photo from the day...that's right, just one. That was the original intention of course, one photo per day, to show the world's hidden beauty and/or wonder and/or not quite so. Just one pic.
Of course, as time proceeded (as it does, it rarely stops still...) it became quite difficult to choose just one, much easier to post three or five or twenty...as the case may be. But every so often, I like to renew the challenge to myself for this blog is nothing if not a challenge to oneself...a challenge to do something regularly, to sharpen the photography 'skills', to actually see parts of the day through a lens.
This time I am adding a level of creativity unusual for me--a touch of short story fiction/faction. I'm not sure which just yet. The story will be of the pic, it may be true, or not. It might relate the day in words, or not.
Let's see how it goes. Today, with the ankle still a bit wobbly (see yesterday), I didn't get too far outside the neighbourhood.
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Concrete dolphin
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| through the wire, meekly |
It has been here a while, in the little park across the other side of the fiveways. I turn right to catch the bus, the park is on the left. In summer the delighted screams of the children resonate around the neighbourhood as they splash around in the pool. For modesty or privacy reasons, which it is I'm not sure, the children are generally shaded by a large blue tarp.
The dolphin watches on. In summer it smiles. Seemingly.
In October, the tarp is packed away, the pool is emptied. Soon the autumn leaves will fall, layer upon layer in this playground.
The dolphin will watch the change of seasons. It will wait until the children return.
The parakeets will perch on the telegraph poles and exchange niceties.
In the meantime, those of us who turn right at the fiveways, instead of left, will get on with our daily chores, until summer, when the dolphin will smile.
Once more.
[Camera : Lumix TZ-85, 4.55pm; 1 October 2017]
