I interrupted my Domestic Drudgeries yesterday morning to search through a couple of old photograph albums and a box of loose pictures in an attempt to find something that I could legitimately use for this week’s Sepia Saturday prompt.
I found plenty of children – on tricycles, on scooters, on regular Schwinns (some of whom I did not know); a few kids in bathing suits; a crowd of them sitting at a picnic table with great hunks of watermelon...but no kids on fences or in parks, and certainly no kids upside down!
Well, I thought, there are some Saturdays when the Sepia Theme leaves me stranded – and this is one of ‘em.
No matter: I always enjoy looking at what others contribute (we Sepians are an amazing bunch, aren’t we?).
So I went back to my housework: finished cleaning up the kitchen and dining room from the previous night’s casual gathering of friends; bunched up the napkins and tossed them into the washing machine with some sheets. When the Whirlpool cycled through its last spin, I filled the basket and went outside to hang the laundry; crossed the yard (white and purple violets all over!) to the line...
...and there it was, right before my eyes!
I didn’t catch it at first – I was too focused on children hanging every which way on a fence – but there was something that demanded my attention, and when I recognized the pattern of the clothespins on the laundry line, I just smiled.
Sometimes I get too closed in, too limited by my own perspective (am I the only Sepian who gets this way?), but then something like this happens and I’m filled with a sense of gratitude that I’m still capable of thinking outside that proverbial box.
Serendipitous Sepia Saturday to you all!
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Clever take on the theme. How about 'Wooden Tops' for a title?
ReplyDeleteOh I like how your mind travels! Very creative.
ReplyDeleteGreat job, Deb! It is a lovely picture to boot. I envy your pretty lilac bushes.
ReplyDeleteKathy M.
Bob -- I like the Wooden Tops idea! I almost decided to paint little kid faces on the clothespins, but figured that would be too much!
ReplyDeleteKaren -- thanks for the assurance that I'm NOT nuts -- just creative!
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Kathy -- no lilacs in your yard? I had you pegged for a lilac gal all along!
Very good reminder to keep the focus a bit outside the lines (pun intended).
ReplyDeleteI like it when inspiration comes from something unexpected! Perfect!
ReplyDeleteHa!
ReplyDeleteOne can almost imagine the clothespins playing on the line.
ReplyDeleteNice to see someone else still using wooden clothes pegs :-)
ReplyDeleteB., Kathy, Kristin: That's one of the things I love about Sepia Saturday -- we're encouraged to move around inside that Box and, oftentimes, step outside it. Keeps us young, eh?
ReplyDeleteAnd for you wooden clothespin (clothes peg) lovers -- Postcardy and Brett in particular, I am with you! I hang my laundry on the line except in the dead of winter, only because it freezes solid up here in Maine!
What a fun post. I love your inventiveness in coming up with this shot. Like you I decided I had nothing that fits this week's theme, though there are vague memories of photographs somewhere of my daughter (now 40 years old) hanging upside down in various places. Thank you for coming up with something original.
ReplyDeleteWonderfully creative. And you are quite right - ever since I first picked the photograph out I have been wondering what it reminded me of - and you have captured it perfectly.
ReplyDeleteSue, Alan -- thank you so much for those kind comments! I just love Sepia Saturday, for it gives us all an opportunity to think in imaginative ways; I love Sepians because they do exactly that!
ReplyDeleteIf that was a chorus line instead of a washing line they'd all be fired! Their performance is wooden and they're all over the place. The best of the bunch is Peggy, the one in the middle, very upright and with a spring in her step :)
ReplyDeleteLittle Nell: Except, of course, if she's one of those inflexible, springless clothespins; then she'd probably be called Margaret (not Peggy) and the whole thing collapses! Thanks for the laugh...
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