Old Owl's photos
Drive
Lace
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Possibly better on black. Press Z.
Soundtrack to Life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScHyuYrm7A8
"Storm Windows" by John Prine because I tried to imagine what was behind the lace ...
Sleeve
Blink
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Submitted for the 10-Week Project: Shapes - Oval
Best on black - press Z, please.
Friend
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Charlie: 24 June 2002 - 27 April 2015. So it goes.
"The Power of the Dog" (Rudyard Kipling)
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find - it's your own affair, -
But ... you've given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!),
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone - wherever it goes - for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear!
We've sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent,
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve;
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long -
So why in Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
Show
Steam
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Bramham Steam Rally
Taken sometime in about 1979 or 1980 with a cheap Cosina SLR from Dixons. Found in an envelope in my shed recently. I still like it.
The music www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk--ReORZCc is Gerry Mulligan, from "Age of Steam. The track is "K-4 Pacific", actually about a steam train, but as close as I could get. And the album is still a classic and one of my favourites (I think long out of print.)
Hearts
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Copper
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Submitted for the 10-Week Project: Shapes - Star
Soundtrack to Life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWgOQ582j8Y
There are so many versions of this song, but this one is my favourite. So much so that it is stipulated as to be played at my funeral! I believe I shall rise again as soon as it begins.
Remembered
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Submitted for the 10-Week Project: Shapes - Circle/Round
Soundtrack to Life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY
Different war; different age; but the result remains the same: trauma and loss.
Unmoved
No
Out
Hidden
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Curve
Drop
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Thoughts
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Considered as an alternative submission to the Color Wheel project - Black, but dismissed as not being black enough!
