Wall Associations:
“All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall.” Pink Floyd (my very first impulse; it’s always a song)
The wailing wall, the Berlin wall, the Great Wall of China…so many iconic walls. What about the wall we put up when our privacy is threatened or when our emotions are about to bubble over, and we don’t want to seem vulnerable? Walls and boundaries, according to Steve, are useful at times, but he hopes they are all only temporary. His goal is to be open, always. (You can probably guess he’s a pretty confident person. Me? I like to have somewhere safe to hide.) Fences and walls in poetry: Robert Frost “Mending Wall” (‘Something there is that doesn’t love a wall’ – yeah, like Steve) and D. H. Lawrence “Snake” (the snake comes out of an earth-wall into his water trough and…well, read the poem. It’s good.) My wall of photos, or my photos of Wall:
scillagrace 
Scilla, what a gorgeous gallery! I especially like the one on the top left, of the leaf on the wall. But they’re all great.
janet
That’s one of my favorites, too. An old CCC-built wall in Shawnee National Forest. Thanks, Janet!
a fabulous collection x
Thank you!
Such a beautiful and thoughtful post!
Thank you, Naomi. My thoughts are mostly just loose associations when I start out. I suppose they get more knotty as I keep going.
Nice photos. I especially like the moss covered brick wall and the blue wall with chairs in front.
Yes, those are favorites of mine, too. When I first posted that one of the chairs, a woman from Woodman WI contacted me to tell me that’s where she waited for the school bus each morning. That was a cool surprise!
Really? Small world…that is so cool.
It felt good to give her a memento from home, even though we’d never met. 🙂
Lovely photos and most enjoyable post. Frost’s poem says it all.
Isn’t that a gem? Wise and questioning.
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