Sunday 13 July 2008

A point...... - # 08/163

A point of........departure, arrival, meeting, agreement, division, an ancient cross road, a landscape of fertile imagination, a vision of uncertainty and disconnection, a study in grey, a place of rest, a place of disturbance, Gallows Pond, lumps of wood nailed together beside a large puddle, the site of an ancient gallows on a once lonely place on an old road, now part of what has become Richmond Park.

9 comments:

  1. Hi Roon!
    Another beautiful shot of the Park!
    300 years? Don't see them... ;)
    Thanks for your comments on Blogtrotter, now at the Michigan Law School! Left a reply to your last comment there!
    Hope you take pleasure in it and wish you a great week!

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  2. Hello Roon,

    An apt description. I guess it was all those things and probably more. It is a lonesome place. I would not want to sit down and wait for my wife to show up. It might take years.

    Abraham Lincoln
    Brookville, Ohio

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  3. I love your narrative on this. teresting choice b7w but it works perfectly.

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  4. Why is this nice meeting point today so empty?

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  5. It looks quite desolate, doesn't it? Or is that story of yours working its way into my brain. Not sure that I would take much comfort from the garden bench. I do like the image though ... and the tale.

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  6. Splendid photo. You know me tho', too many words accompanying it. Imagine it without the bench. Completely different. Without the bench, it's just a landscape, still pretty nice. With the bench there is a statement - what it is is up to the viewer.

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  7. @Everyone....tks. I do try hard. The story is accurate. It is near a gallows site on an ancient trackway. It struck me as desolate...but I had to wait until no car roof could be glimpsed in the distance. That was the hardest bit!!!!!

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  8. Great place, well photographed, a strange and lonely atmosphere. Your words are almost poetic.

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  9. Gallows pond? Ancient crossroads? Please tell me more.

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