I puzzled my head over what to photograph for the #2019picoftheweek title Road Worthy. Then, while taking my camera for a walk, I came across these …
tractor tyres, retired: 3rd May 2019
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Wow! Certainly you found a miracle at road 🙂 Any guess why they are lying there? 🙂
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I’d say it was a convenient place to leave discarded tractor tires. And maybe someone had been asked to collect them. The wider shot included a rather relaxed-looking and ripe-reeking mound of manure … possibly winter muckings from the horses.
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I see, a nice place to dump tires. Umm… but winter muckings? Isn’t it summer in UK now?
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Yep. So you can imagine how rich and ripe the smell. 🙂
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And you managed to click such a great picture there too? You are amazing and tolerant, I would have to say. 🙂
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I thank you. When I’m out with the camera, my eyes are always searching for an unusual and/or interesting shot, despite my main interest is flowers
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I love flowers too. Any favourite?
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Too many to name. Depends on the season. Bluebells. Dog rose. The humble much overlooked red deadnettle. Bindweed. And every kind of fern. And some of the grasses.
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Love it! A most original take, I say…
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And my daughter ribbed me for taking the shot. Farm machinery and tractors she just can get. But tires? Hey, I also took a pic of the mounded manure that slumped beside the tires. Rich. Ripe. Great stuff for organic farming 🙂
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What does she know… 😉
We photographers take what fascinates us and look, this one got its day in the sun, so to speak
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Actually, she’s a photographer too. And there are things she’ll focus on, and I’ll walk past. Each to our own.
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There is that. We see what we see.
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Indeed. I see an interesting shot where another might see rubbish. But then I might see the mundane, where another sees something exceptional.
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Which makes it all so interesting
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Indeed. Again. 🙂
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One time, my cousin and my brother took a retired tractor tire and rolled it three miles down the road. During a snowstorm. With shorts on.
My dad wasn’t happy when he got the call to come pick them up.
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Oh chuckle. Nice one. The only thing we did with old tires as to threw them in the river and float on them. Though I will say, inner tubes were best for that
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Oh yeah, nothing like tubing!
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Absolutely. Unfortunately, the village kids can no longer use that stretch of river. The river authority has made it into a concrete-bedded weir. Picturesque, but unswimable.
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😦 Still, probably helps with flooding or stuff like that.
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Not the last time I passed that way. The meadows edging were white with flood water and ice. Though I expect that’s a rarety. I think the purpose is to stop the old mill water gushing through the sluice and gouging an even deeper hole around the bridge. It was reputedly 25 ft deep when I was a kid. Reputedly. Probably closer to 10ft. I didn’t know anyone who had dived deep enough to find the bottom. And then another five foot away and it was wading-deep. There had been a water mill there since 1086 at least.
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Ah, gotcha. Makes sense.
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I can explain it no other way. Though it is picturesque, which perhaps the old bridge wasn’t.
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That’s still not really good enough… oh well, such is the way of progress!
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Actually, while writing that I had another thought. That laid-concrete shallow construction put an end to the village youth diving into the great depths from the bridge. Perhaps not dangerous in itself, but that bridge was, and still is, midway between two sharp bends. I think the modernisation was a safety measure.
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Oh, that does make a lot of sense! I’m going to go with that.
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Yea. Don’t know why it’s taken me so long to realise. I thank you for this conversation to finally knock it into place 🙂
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You captured the perfect response. And photographed it brilliantly. I love the variable green hues.
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You mean the green slime on the tires? Sorry, algae.
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I was serious. Even if it is algae.
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Yea, I know, I wasn’t being facetious or anything. 🙂
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Yes, perfect caption for the Road Worthy prompt 🙂 I love the different treads and how everything is surrounded by the vivid green of the grass/leaves.
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That green is mostly stinging nettles, though there were some blooms of red campion, too. But what you don’t see is the enormous mound of rotted manure, ready for spreading on fields. Nor, thankfully, do you smell it.
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Good shot for the prompt Crispina!
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I thank you, Jen. I took the photo. Then wondered if I’d ever use it. And lo! It works.
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And LO! it did! 🙂
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It happens. I took a photo last Monday and doubted I’d ever use it. But today I’ve decided to use it for next Saturday’s 2019picoftheweek challenge. I just love the photo, I’ve just got to make it fit somewhere (memories of an ex who cut trimmed jigsaw pieces to make them fit!)
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Yes its a great photo! OMG 😂 He cut jigsaw pieces? Hmmm
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Then hammered them into place with his fist. Soon after, he became the ex. 🙂
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OMG!!!!!! Not soon enough is my thinking.Wow!
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I was young. We live and learn. 🙂
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Or learn to live in the process.
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Oh, yes, most certainly. I don’t do jigsaws now. (actually I can’t, the dust triggers the asthma.)
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Oh well, time better spent on Photography.
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For every loss …
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A very original response Crispina – and the lichen looks like it has already started to colonise the tyres.
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I don’t know how long they’d been there, and if they were waiting for collection. They just… were
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What wonderful serendipity! The gods of the arts were clearly on your side that day.
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Mmm. I’d say more the inspiration to take the photo. I intended to use it for my Crimson’s Creative Challenge. But then, stuck for a photo this weekend, I thought… well here you are. And here I was. 🙂
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