Christmas Cottage

Christmas cottage, Warwick, NY. 2015

This is my response to Jennifer Nichole Wells’s One Word Photo challenge: Attic, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Doors and Windows Continued, and a late entry for Norm Frampton’s December 24th, Thursday Doors.

These challenges all overlapped nicely this week, unified by one photo. How convenient, especially at this busy time of year! 🙂

Artificial

Who do they think they’re fooling? Even in the fading light this cell phone tower, camouflaged with artificial foliage, has a hard time blending with its surroundings. It looks like a giant bottle cleaning brush or prickly Q-tip.

Since attempts to disguise these things as trees always seem to fail, perhaps it would be best to embrace their artificial nature rather than unsuccessfully try to hide it. I would love to see at least some made into  fantastical sculpture like the Montjuïc Telecommunications Tower in Barcelona which doubles as a sundial.

Cell phone towers seem to be a permanent part of our future. What do you think about their aesthetic role?

This is my response to Jennifer Nichole Wells’s One Word Photo Challenge: Artificial.

Wood And Metal Spanning Space And Time

lonely hound traveling
long retired tracks
soft paws and toenails echo 
click-it-a-clack

copyright ©2015 Terry Boswell

wood and metal
softly fade 
into distance 
and receding light
enveloped soon in darkness

copyright ©2015 Terry Boswell

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Looking south toward Warick from Sugar Loaf, New York. April Fool’s Day snow. 2015.

Looking north toward Chester from Sugar Loaf, NY. November 2014.

Along the rail trail, Chester, NY. 2015

Canine traveler. Rail trail, Chester, NY. 2015

Evening view down the tracks. Sugar Loaf, NY. November 2015.

This is my response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Metal and Wood.

Enter a caption

Buildings And Trees

Block Island, RI

Cape May, NJ

Warwick, NY

Basilica di Santa Ciara, Assisi, Italy.

New Paltz, NY

Sugar Loaf, NY

Sugar Loaf, NY

Sugar Loaf, NY

Old School Baptist Church, Warwick, NY

New York, NY

 

This is my response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Buildings and Trees.