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botanical, chance encounter, ecopoetics, high tide, landscape, photography, place, poetry, Wales, walking, waves
Still Life VI, copyright Diana Hale
Chance Encounter
Throw the dice
Twice daily
Life or death
Chance
Collision
Fallout
Still Life V, copyright Diana Hale
Still Life IV, copyright Diana Hale
Still Life III, copyright Diana Hale
Still Life II, copyright Diana Hale
Still Life I, copyright Diana Hale
Another great post. I’ve had several chance encounters.. Mitten crabs and dead carp washed up on the sure and with the high tides scouring the shore a headless porcelain dolls figure was to be found.
Sounds eerie! I remember seeing pictures of the carp I think. Beachcombing and mudlarking are also endlessly fascinating.
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great post … nice verse
Thanks for appreciating.
And i appreciate the narrative within the poem and the succession of still lifes. Hope you collide with some good fortune this week.
Thank you again!
Thank you for this–something really different, Diana. I particularly like the 1st one. It reminded me of Japanese screen art (the little i know of it). Spare and clean…A careful simplicity.
I like to surprise you Kathryn! I think you are right about the Japanese aesthetic – sushi?
So strange to see this washed up material on flagstones. I suppose that’s about the wild winds and waves. Nice bright green; poor soggy crab!
It is a walkway which regularly gets flooded at high tides, but this one was exceptional for the amount of organic debris left at the edge.
I had forgotten how solidly built the seaside walkways are in the UK. We take a fairly patchy approach but our seas in the Gulf of St Vincent are not huge, so sand dunes and brick paving are working reasonably well so far.
It was put in in face of some opposition to make the walk under Dylan Thomas’s Boathouse more ‘accessible’. It is non slip paving. I hated it to start with but have got more used to it now, but I don’t like these sort of tidying up interventions (see my previous post!).
I see. That was such a complex post and seemed a bit beyond me. I understand it better on second reading!
Thank you for taking the time to look at that again! I hope it did make sense, although I guess it was more about restricting space and urban space rather than rural. The same applies though and I do dislike the proliferation of bollards, signs etc everywhere. Few spaces are really natural though at least in the UK – Australia is different of course!
The same thing can happen here. there is secret a recipe for tarting areas up. A little bit of planting held in safely by concrete kerbing and surrounds paved with some interlocking pink concrete bricks. improvement, but one size fits all. Luckily along here we have some ti-trees and shrubs on the edge of the reclaimed dunes to mess it up a bit!