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Hay, man!

Hay, man!
As photogenic as haypoles were, they are history. This I took in the end of the 70's; we had spent the night in the tent nearby but had gotten so cold before the dawn that we'd had to take a hike. Here the sun had just risen and can be vaguely seen behind the closest stack.

In a thick fog in a place like this it can get so amazingly quiet at night before birds wake up that an urban dweller may go nuts out there! The fog sucks all reverberations and echos whatsoever from the ether and you can only hear your own breathing, blood circulating and brain buzzing – and the worst of all, your thoughts, if any. :-)

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 Au Cœur... diagonalhorizon
Au Cœur... diagonalh… club
I love this sentinel
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Au Cœur... diagonalh… club
Hail to the last man standing. :-)
9 years ago.
 Ch'an
Ch'an club
Excellent composition and BW !
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Ch'an club
Thank you, Didier!
9 years ago.
 dolores666
dolores666 club
My brain doesn't buzz. It goes "pop, pop, pop" at irregular intervals.
This is a beautiful picture, Spot.
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to dolores666 club
Thank you, Dodo. You've clearly gone digital, you surely have. :-)
9 years ago.
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
HI!
lovely misty mood
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Annemarie club
Thank you very much, Annamarie!
9 years ago.
 Nicolas Mertens
Nicolas Mertens club
Beautiful!
Seen in "Down on The Farm."
9 years ago.
 Eefje
Eefje
The wordplay makes me smile:-)
Still, I find him rather creepy. That's what fog does, nothing is what it seems.
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Eefje
This is definitely a friendly fog, Eefje. Don't be scared! :-)
9 years ago.
 Marta Wojtkowska
Marta Wojtkowska club
Haypoles are not history :)
One can stll see them in Tatras (Polish mountains) and other rocky regions :)
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Marta Wojtkowska club
Good for you, Marta! :-) I guess people at the mountains are afraid that the modern round bales would get loose and roll down. :-)
9 years ago.
 'ºLº'
'ºLº'
...A variation from the snowman (man as in: the species)
And the magic of the metaphor :))

(..)and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
( ©Wallace Stevens)
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to 'ºLº'
What a beauty! Thanks a lot, Leonora. I don't know if it is just me, but it turned its sad side my way.
9 years ago.
 
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terrific!
8 years ago.
 Xata
Xata club
If any... or imagination can run, this could be... no, I wont tell!
Excellent anyhow.
6 years ago.
Spo has replied to Xata club
So I won't ask, and even if I did, after three years you probably wouldn't remember anyway. :) Sorry about the ever so slight delay.
3 years ago.
 Nautilus
Nautilus
très belle photo ! ce genre de meules de foin deviennent très rares.
3 years ago.
Spo has replied to Nautilus
Indeed! This summer I've only seen one.
3 years ago.
 Eva Lewitus
Eva Lewitus club
I loved those hand made haystacks. We had fun with them and in them...The past wasn´t so bad, was it? Thanks for your photo
3 years ago.

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