General Purpose Legends

Invisible Horses

”Once upon a time there was a girl who had 7 invisible horses. People thought she was crazy and that she in fact had 7 imaginative horses, but this was not the case. When autumn came the girl spent a whole day washing all her clothes. She hung them on a string in her garden to let the gentle autumn sun dry them. Out of nowhere, a terrible storm came and its forceful winds grabbed hold of all her clothes and all seven horses. The girl was devastated and spent all autumn looking for each horse spread around the country, wrapped in her clothes.”

Photo project by Ulrika Kestre.

Formless Circumstance

All busy in the sunlight the flecks did float and dance,
And I was tumbled up with them in formless circumstance.

 Love Itself ~ Leonard Cohen.

Waterfall

I do not ask for youth, nor for delay
in the rising of time's irreversible river
that takes the jeweled arc of the waterfall
in which I glimpse, minute by glistening minute,
all that I have and all I am always losing
as sunlight lights each drop fast, fast falling.

I do not dream that you, young again,
might come to me darkly in love's green darkness
where the dust of the bracken spices the air
moss, crushed, gives out an astringent sweetness
and water holds our reflections
motionless, as if for ever.

It is enough now to come into a room
and find the kindness we have for each other
-- calling it love -- in eyes that are shrewd
but trustful still, face chastened by years
of careful judgement; to sit in the afternoons
in mild conversation, without nostalgia.

But when you leave me, with your jauntiness
sinewed by resolution more than strength
-- suddenly then I love you with a quick
intensity, remembering that water,
however luminous and grand, falls fast
and only once to the dark pool below. 

~ Lauris Dorothy Edmond

The Skywhale

Patricia Piccinini's maternal  "Skywhale" divided opinion when it visited our shores recently as part of the centenary celebrations of our nation's capital, Canberra. Piccinini stated that her "aim was to create a being that was massive and wondrous and that exists somewhere between the impossible and the unlikely"

I was a big fan. What a fantastic object to photograph. 

Celebrity Two

What a great image of the inimitable James Spader. I'm a fan of his work.  

And Tilda. What can I say about Tilda? She is exceptional.