Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

I’m tired and indecisive this evening, so you get two interpretations of this theme. The first is this one:

It’s my daughter, Rebecca, at her sister’s bridal shower. A couple of months after this photo was taken, her boyfriend proposed, and now she’s poised to be the next bride in our family. Perhaps she’ll be carried over a threshold shortly after that. (But that’s a pretty old custom; maybe no one does that any more.) Here’s another go:

This one’s probably a bit less literal, but maybe more poetic. I like the ascent from darkness to light, from the cool, barren rock to the wall of mossy fecundity. I like the passage littered with dead leaves that gives way to the vault of sunshine. Steve and I have been talking about the joyous urgency of blooming. He is in midlife, going to turn 50 in November, and he is eager to do something important with his life. And soon! So we are aware of this threshold and urging the “joy of change and movement” into our lives. Not sure exactly how that will be manifest, but stay tuned!

20 thoughts on “Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold”

Wow. Amazing post! 🙂

scillagrace says:

April 4, 2014 at 8:40 pm

Thanks!

Reply

Hi Scilla,
I love all your interpretations of a word packed with symbolism.

scillagrace says:

April 4, 2014 at 8:40 pm

Thanks, Naomi. Can’t wait to see yours!

Reply

Two very different takes on the theme 🙂
Like it a LOT!
PS – carrying over threshold is not “old” – we did it when we got married 5 and a half years ago! But then again, people do call us old souls sometimes 🙂

scillagrace says:

April 5, 2014 at 5:23 pm

I like the old traditions, myself. Maybe that’s why I work at Old World Wisconsin?

Reply

keep on keepin on 🙂 Q

scillagrace says:

April 5, 2014 at 5:28 pm

And Growin’ On…statis can be boring. 😉

Reply

I vote for the second one; more mysterious 😉

scillagrace says:

April 5, 2014 at 5:24 pm

I agree with you. The first was more of a no-brainer.

Reply

The second image is a journey unto itself. It conjures the unknown, which fits so well into a new passage in life. Well imagined and well stated.

scillagrace says:

April 7, 2014 at 9:16 pm

Thanks, Sally. Yes, I like the depth of that one very much.

Reply

I’ve carried Mrs Shpics over every new threshold we’ve found ourselves living in since marriage 14 years ago….
It’s getting harder. 😦
I can’t even blame her, she’s 6 pounds lighter now…. I might just have to give up on all of the good old fashioned romance…..That or buy a truss.

scillagrace says:

April 7, 2014 at 9:18 pm

Or maybe she’ll carry you next time?

Reply
- Stuart Hyde - shpics says:
  
  April 8, 2014 at 1:28 am
  
  Sadly I haven’t been getting lighter over the passing years….Though she might have managed it during our courtship, (in fact there was one memorable moment at a roadside hotel where, due to a hopefully unfeigned enthusiasm, I believe she actually did), it would I’m afraid be well beyond her now.
  Ah well….
- Helen Cherry says:
  
  April 14, 2014 at 5:37 pm
  
  You two are a class act 😉