It is not often one sees ivy taking a lone journey, twisting and turning through the air, but here at Quarry Bank the Ivy was dangling from the trees and caught my eye for a picture.
This got me thinking. How often do we go exploring away from the beliefs and traditions that we cling on to in life? Can we survive independently of them and do our own thinking? Sometimes, by journeying away and then returning back, we can see which of those traditions can support us, and which may have been suffocating us.
It is a thesis which I heard expounded most eloquently by an Australian poet Joel McKerrow, at Greenbelt last year. So now I am reminded to go and check out some of his poetry again.
Today, sadly, there were no pictures presenting themselves to me. But instead, there were sounds. I was thankful for the wall of bird song that accompanied me along my route to work.
love your depth of field here. and a thought-provoking narrative. i will check out joel mckerrow, especially as we're still in australia at the moment. and i like the sound of a wall of bird song :)
This vine has a lovely curl to it and is beautifully captured. Actually I look at the beliefs and traditions I've garnered over life as the foundation which gives me the ability to explore and think on my own rather than something that holds me back from it. Nice shot!
I had the very same thought when looking at nature through a camera lense last year: In late spring, I wanted to catch a few new leaves in a tree, but there were a lot of wilted ones as well! I never noticed that before. I had always thought that they all fell down in autumn and winter. I love how taking pictures enables us to see those details.
This is a lovely capture of the ivy. And your contemplations are thought-provoking. But for me, seeing ivy reminded me of how I spent hours ripping them away from my house last summer when I was told the roots would dig into the tuck pointing of the brick house and erode them, so I frantically removed the ivy I had been admiring for its beauty. Now my ivy is more contained along the beds surrounding the house. What does that mean -- a person removing and killing ivy?
@jyokota fear not .. my ramblings do not bear analysis they are just wandering thoughts turned on to the page ..often without due care. I am sure your actions were wise.!
January 3rd, 2020
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