I was walking by a rockpile and what else could I do? they didn't need to be rearranged, they were fine as they were. but for a few blissful minutes I lost not the world but myself, and the walk around the lake was full of significances, because I chose to see them as such.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
yesterday by the lake I piled up some stones.
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Lovely shade of blue.
I love making rock people! I've left them looking out at the ocean in Oregon and in Maine, on Cape Cod and in Florida. This summer on vacation along the coast of Maine we came upon a whole city of rock people!
they were quite beautiful stones, dave, I must agree. they might have been a little less blue than they look, I think I had the camera set to kodachrome instead of standard. I do that when I'm having grey days. internally grey days, I mean. it was actually nice & sunny that afternoon.
pauline, do you have pictures of any of your rock people? I don't know what it is about rocks and stones but my pockets usually have at least one or two of them rattling around, and when I see rocks I always feel a tug of longing, wanting to pile them up, arrange them in spirals, or take them home.
I don't have any pictures but will ask my son about the ones he took in Maine. I feel the same affinity for rocks - I remember making a Native American prayer circle once and the instructions were to only choose rocks that spoke to you. I learned to pay attention early - rocks speak slowly, as do trees but it is possible to listen...
I've always been a Kodachrome sort of person although I've flirted, in a fairly brazen fashion, with Agfa, Perutz and Fuji. That said, I've not used film for several years so I'm not sure what I'd be into now.
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