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Something Cari this way comes…

January 6, 2012 By Cari

A story is coming...
A story is coming...

I may have developed a blog posting phobia. I’ve been wanting to write a post for weeks, but every time I tried to pin myself down at the computer I’d find a thousand other things that needed to be done first, like watching another rerun episode of The Mentalist. It’s not really the fear of writing a blog post, it’s the fear of letting people down because I can’t yet say, “It’s done!” However, I can say I’m nearly done with Dancing the Maypole. I started chapter 44 yesterday (it’s now over 121,000 words so it’s by far my longest story yet). This should be the last chapter before the Epilogue. Something Cari this way comes! Over Christmas I pulled out Once Upon a Wager and read what I have. I only see it needing about four more chapters. As soon as I’m done with Maypoles I’ll see if I can get the characters to cooperate.

It’s a miracle I got any writing done this past month as I spent most of it sick, but (as of the 1st of Jan) I’m back on my mega healthy Candida diet so after a few weeks my energy levels should rise now that I’ve thrown sugar overboard. This time I have some new tools to help me stay on course. I’m looking forward to being less fat and having more brain energy to write faster. Stories are piled on my mental file cabinet. I thought of another one on my walk today (a child’s picture book). I should probably make a note of it before it falls into my mental black hole. The likelihood of it getting written isn’t high, but I think it’s best to capture all story ideas just in case I turn into one of those scary super-writers who churn out brilliant stories every three months. One can always hope!

In the mean time…this afternoon I walked down to the Fairy-wood where I found some magical photos. When I reached my usual entry (down into a drain ditch and up through a prickly hedge) I found slippery mud and about five inches of water waiting to ruin my new shoes. I stood there for a number of minutes staring at the gap in the hedge wondering the probability of leaping and actually making it into the wood with dry feet and clean trousers. Probability very low, I suddenly had this thought that there might be another way through the hedge down the road where the ditch wasn’t full of water. Fifty yards down the road I found an open fence and a road into the wood…so I walked in without breaking my ankle or ruining my shoes (though I did nearly do both after deciding to walk deeper into the wood down what looked like a road, but was really a muddy horse track covered by leaves). The setting sun offered some lovely shots along with some half burnt trash…what looked like a car window…I nearly missed a great shot (the picture with the ghostly hand reaching out of the broken glass…like some ghost-demon (yes I’ve been reading too many ghost stories) Did I mention I’m obsessive? Note I’m not obsessive compulsive, I just give in to my endless obsessions!

Jagged sky!
Jagged sky!
The sun through the trees...
I like the blackness of the various shaped tree trunks against the sun. This little wood is a tree farm so all the trees have been grown at set distances from each other so you get uniform lines you wouldn't get in a wild wood.I'
I've no idea what this is...
I was quite surprised to come across wild yellow flowers at this time of year.
Broken glass..
Broken glass.. Someone had burnt a pile of rubbish near the fence into the wood. This looked like it might have been a car window. I love the composition formed by the breaks with the leaves underneath complimenting that weird glinting gold stuff. Beautiful trash! This is the same piece of glass I used to take the ghost-demon reaching out shot! I just walked around and found the reflected sun gave me a different shot. Love it. I'm tempted to go back and take some more shots of the trash.
The setting sun...
The setting sun...those are seagulls flying across the shot. I must have seen over a thousand fly past...it was very weird...and then my blackbirds (Rooks) soared home cutting across the path of the Seagulls.
I wish I had wings...
If I had wings...I'd be flying through that cloud catching the last of the sun.

Filed Under: Dancing the Maypole, I've been taking photographs

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  1. Teresa Thomas Bohannon says

    January 7, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    Cari,
    It is always such a delight to read your posts and see your lovely photographs.
    Smiles
    Teresa

  2. Cari says

    January 7, 2012 at 7:26 pm

    @Teresa Thomas Bohannon
    Thanks Teresa! 🙂

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