where shadows play...

where shadows play
dark mirrors reflect and reshape
enlarged fragments


Linking to:
Shadow Shot Sunday 2


My MEMES
Scenic Weekends - Links opened yesterday!
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Monday Mellow Yellows

where the shadows lurk...

where the shadows lurk
a mix of wandering sun
and brown mystery


Linking to:
Shadow Shot Sunday 2
Weekend Haiku


NOTE - My Memes
Scenic Weekends - Links opened yesterday!
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Monday Mellow Yellows
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Weekend Haiku TODAY on my Haiku Songlines blog.
Prompt: Brown

Odd Shapes and Odd Shadows

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ One of my odd ornaments.
Many have argued just what it is.
I have used it as an unusual doorstop and I put pot pourri in it.
The middle area at the top could hold a large candle.
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Shadow Shot Sunday #148
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Shadows of odd shapes
Reality's conundrum
Intriguing puzzle
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Hosted by Tracy @ Hey Harriet

Wheels Friday #7 ~ Chariot

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ An ornament on my mantelpiece
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From classical times
Wild ride out in the open
Crazy flying wheels
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Wheels Friday #7 ~ Chariot
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WELCOME TO WHEELS FRIDAY
Here you may post ANYTHING related to WHEELS!
You may offer some explanation OR you may simply let us enjoy the view!

cars - vintage and modern - exterior or interior
trains/buses/trams
trucks
steering wheels
bikes - motorised or pushbikes
carts/wagons - vintage or modern
trolleys
paddlewheeler
inner mechanisms - e.g. wheels of a clock
whirlygigs
art/ornament based on wheels

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(LINKS will usually open Fridays at 2:05am Australian Eastern Standard Time)
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ENJOY!

Overland Track

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ My angel
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One Single Impression #126 ~ Angel
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As he trudged through the cold swirls of morning mist, (barely seeing trees and rocks), to pass the time, he found himself thinking about angels.
Traditionally, angels had wings and always wore a halo, like a kind of suspended golden crown.
He was pretty sure that the angel of death had wings too.
But he could not remember if anything was suspended above this angel's head...

Why was he thinking this way? Perhaps too much map reading before this bushwalking trip.
He remembered laughing at the names...
Walls of Jerusalem
Mt Achilles
Mt Pelion
Mt Ossa
and he saw other names...
Jupiters Moon
Promised Land
Eden River
Paradise
Like a religious, sacred window on older, maybe utopian worlds.

And yet Tasmania's Overland Track sounded just so "outback Australian"!
Some outback! Where even in summer, he had been warned that there could be snow falls and icy winds!
Right now, in December, just before Christmas, he was tasting thick icy mist and his companion should be just ahead of him...should be!

The trek was meant to be a bonding experience...bonding with Nature...bonding with his companion. (He had never asked her to be his wife.
Strangely, he couldn't recall too many times that he even referred to her as a friend.)

Their lives together had wavered in recent years. She was a university lecturer and he was just a furniture removalist. Everyone called them the odd couple. Once he thought that he loved her for encouraging him to return to studies. He admitted to frittering away school days and really wanted to mend wasted time in his life. But her encouragement had insidiously transformed into nagging. His good intentions were slipping and he was beginning to see her as one of his former teachers - pushing deadlines and rules. He couldn't work under those tight conditions.

And now, here they were, trying to find common ground with Nature...
But she was a little closer to the ground than he was...

He looked up, wondering if something was suspended there...
shrugged...
smiled...
and suddenly felt he had wings to fly
deliriously
free...

Time to mend wasted time...
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Hosted by Andrée and SandyCarlson

Code in the Round?

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ One of my display pieces
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Shannara's Saturday Mix #4 ~ Round
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Odd kind of markings
Decorative rim features
Coded messages
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Like a Goddess of Legend

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~
One of my treasured garden ornaments
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Macro Monday meme
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A sacred moment
Like a goddess of legend
Spirits of the sky
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Sounds and Sights of Christmas

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ One of my favourite Christmas guys given to me by my dear partner. Touch his hand and he rocks and rolls to Christmas music while his antler lights flash!
***Available at my GemmaWiseman Zazzle store as a Christmas postcard or Christmas greeting card!
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Ruby Tuesday meme
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Antlered character
Celebrating happiness
Christmas rock and roll
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A White Swan in My Garden

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A swan that has travelled many garden journeys with me.
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White Wednesday #15
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Gentle peaceful wings
Quiet garden ambiance
Magic of a swan
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Tropical Ruby

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ One of my many black ornaments with a ruby feature
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Ruby Tuesday meme
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Ruby petal folds
Like a Hawaiian flower
Tropical mystique
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No Shadows Without Light

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Shadows playing around another of my little angel ornaments.
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Shadow Shot Sunday #60
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Angelic corner
Exchange of shapes and spaces
Shadows in the light
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Egyptian Archer and Chariot

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ My Egyptian archer and chariot
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Sepia Scenes #38
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Egyptian icons
From the crumbling pyramids
Old legends live on
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Blue Wolf Singing to a Blue Moon

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ When I visited Saskatchewan in Canada some years ago, I bought this little souvenir in Regina, the capital city.
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Blue Monday meme
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Blues are mystical
A lone wolf cries to the moon
Soft sad memories
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Reflections

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ My old fantasy clock and shadow plus the shadow of a tall vase not appearing in the photo.
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Shadow Shot Sunday #48
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Fantasy shadows
Mirrors of restless souls
World of old children
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Imagine an Inner Glow

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Verandah ornament.
I have only just found this ornament tucked away in the garden, almost buried in leaves.
Perhaps forgotten by a previous owner?
Its little "cap" is removable, so this could be a tealight ornament?
Now it is all cleaned up, it is quite magical.
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Shadow Shot Sunday #43
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Little fairy house
Waiting for a gleam of light
Inner magic glow
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