WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: "Ripeness is all." (reprise)PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL: Looking at yesterday's image, my brother found himself on the Yellow Brick Road. I'm hoping this image, shot on the same day, might leave some viewers also somewhere in the Oz zone, perhaps off to the side of the famous road and slightly dizzy from that perfume of untamed nature that doesn't affect tinmen. Every farm has areas between the corn and hay and cows too rocky or swampy, where nothing useful grows, and something else is always lurking.
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Your brother puts an interesting spin on these photos. The YBR is always fraught with pleasure and pain; beauty and ugliness; ease and difficulty (and good songs and dancing). This image not only conveys the reward at the end of the road, but clearly shows the thorns along the way.
As I recall, your WS quote takes place in the battlefield between Edgar and Gloucester. Edgar is convincing Gloucester that all is not lost, and maturity and experience are the important elements in life. [exeunt Munchkins]
Yes, definitely a thorny scene. I would not even think of crossing through. As to Edgar's quote, I'm not sure Edgar has faith in the value of maturity and experience, but he knows that the alternative, well put by Gloucester, "A man may rot even here," is no alternative at all. Whatever ripeness may bring, it's the only thing that can have value.
I believe our cheese for tinight that I just bought is ripe.
Ripe cheese? OK, I'll take... ;)
And it was so good! Thanks for stopping by.
Those areas are everywhere some small some large but all beautiful and for that useful.
And also useful for all the animals who find shelter and nourishment there. Thanks for stopping by.
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