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Hay, man!

As photogenic as haypoles were, they are history. This I took in the end of the 70's; we had spent the night in the tent nearby but had gotten so cold before the dawn that we'd had to take a hike. Here the sun had just risen and can be vaguely seen behind the closest stack.

In a thick fog in a place like this it can get so amazingly quiet at night before birds wake up that an urban dweller may go nuts out there! The fog sucks all reverberations and echos whatsoever from the ether and you can only hear your own breathing, blood circulating and brain buzzing – and the worst of all, your thoughts, if any. :-)
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Au Cœur... diagonalh… said:

I love this sentinel
9 years ago

Spo replied to Au Cœur... diagonalh…:

Hail to the last man standing. :-)
9 years ago

Ch'an said:

Excellent composition and BW !
9 years ago ( translate )

Spo replied to Ch'an:

Thank you, Didier!
9 years ago

dolores666 said:

My brain doesn't buzz. It goes "pop, pop, pop" at irregular intervals.
This is a beautiful picture, Spot.
9 years ago

Spo replied to dolores666:

Thank you, Dodo. You've clearly gone digital, you surely have. :-)
9 years ago

Annemarie said:

HI!
lovely misty mood
9 years ago ( translate )

Spo replied to Annemarie:

Thank you very much, Annamarie!
9 years ago

Nicolas Mertens said:

Beautiful!
Seen in "Down on The Farm."
9 years ago ( translate )

Eefje said:

The wordplay makes me smile:-)
Still, I find him rather creepy. That's what fog does, nothing is what it seems.
9 years ago

Spo replied to Eefje:

This is definitely a friendly fog, Eefje. Don't be scared! :-)
9 years ago

Marta Wojtkowska said:

Haypoles are not history :)
One can stll see them in Tatras (Polish mountains) and other rocky regions :)
9 years ago

Spo replied to Marta Wojtkowska:

Good for you, Marta! :-) I guess people at the mountains are afraid that the modern round bales would get loose and roll down. :-)
9 years ago

'ºLº' said:

...A variation from the snowman (man as in: the species)
And the magic of the metaphor :))

(..)and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
( ©Wallace Stevens)
9 years ago

Spo replied to 'ºLº':

What a beauty! Thanks a lot, Leonora. I don't know if it is just me, but it turned its sad side my way.
9 years ago