Such a fantastic response to Crimson’s Creative Challenge this week has inspired me to share a couple of photos dating back 20 yrs (pre-digi, point&click camera, terrible quality). They were taken at Swallowhead Springs, source of the Kennet river in Wiltshire, near the mystical Avebury Circle and Silbury Hill.
My daughter, surrounded by prayers: Sept 2004
It was a windy day. An ancient willow guards the springs. Tokens of every kind accompany the prayers: candles, slips of fabric and paper, photos, even a carrier bag!
Sept 2004
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That is so lovely!
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Thank you, Dale. Lousy photos though…
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Don’t be so persnickety…
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Okay.
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😉
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Willows are such magical trees. I’m not surprised they have so many traditions attached to them.
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Somethikng magical about the willow… not least of which is its source of aspirin
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Good point; I was thinking purely aesthetically. One of the parish houses my grandparents lived in had a willow tree in the front yard whose branches came all the way to the ground, all the way around. My sister and I used to hide “inside” to talk about secret sister stuff and dream about fairies and elves.
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I love seeing willow trees. Around the marshes and the Broads, they’re the most common. Frosty-looking even in summer
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Still full of memory though, I suspect.
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Memories… I wanna go back there.
I’m having a lot of the photos from those years scanned (I haven’t the facility, and these are being done professionally)
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I hope they come out well. My wife took hundreds of photos while I waited patiently. 🙂
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I’m a click addict. So much easier with digital. But what to do with them all?
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Stash them away in old shoe boxes apparently. 😄
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Oh the old ones are in albums… else my daughters have run off with them. No, it’s the terabyte on more recent stuff
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Yes I’d forgotten about all the digital ones on her laptop.
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Not physical space, but space all the same
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Wow. The tree looks so magnificent ❤️
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It was. Magical
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