The Potential River by Chipka
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Description
Leaves no longer whisper here.
For those endowed with a wood-reader's skills, the name of this tree-husk may make itself known. For others, however, there is only the skeleton: nature's wordless reminder that all is ephimeral.
Where bark has peeled away, readers of another sort may recognize the subtle calligraphies of ravenous worms. Still others may see the main artery and tributaries of a mapless waterway...a potential river.
Life, it seems, has its fill of such phantom waterways, and few—if any of us—ever dare to navigate them.
There may be some play at wisdom in this, as each of these potential rivers reveals itself only in the passing of something else.
Life vanishes and potential rivers appear.
I have learned something from this, though I have yet to discover exactly what.
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Weird contemplations have been bubbling up all day, and this is just one of them.
As always, thank you for viewing, reading, and commenting, and hopefully everyone has had a great weekend!
Comments (20)
Interesting thoughts and fitting to the dark and forlorn ghost.
Stark and impressive; a memorable image and thought-provoking words!
Great!!
Really a wonderful view. reminds me of a winter way back, sitting under a tree like this and drinking a beer... same type of sky also :)
Something about the starkness provokes thoughtfulness. Some might find this sort of view to have a small measure of inherent evil, appropriate for Halloween. I see truth ... the kind that cracks like a whip. No good or evil here, just reality, stripped of the prettiness with which we prefer to surround ourselves. A marketing major, an advertising guru, would speak of the potential ... the riot of leaf and flower to come ... something to make us a bit more comfortable. That's all well and good, but still, the truth is there. (You're a bad influence, my dear! My mind was all settled in for the night, and you woke it up.) :)
Thought provoking it is.
As always your photo is perfect and as always your words add a special life to it. A life, insights, thoughts never imagined by others like me. Thank you, Chip :-)
Fantastic work.
Naked trees always inspire thought. And it is so interesting how trees can look so dead in winter and yet in spring, when the sap begins to flow through their veins like blood, come back to life. Lovely photo and words. CC
The tark silhouette is as effective as your prose, Chip!
Chip, once again I'm awed by how such a simple picture can speak volumes when told by you....I love it ~
You have taken a lifeless, ordinary object and with your narrative turned it into a world of imaginative, thought-provoking ideas.
A gorgeous silouhette... bravo Chip!
I dont think ill ever look at a tree the same way agean. love it10+
Well done!
I'm in awe of you.
You see things and make them into something so completely wonderful---and I know about wandering minds and what happens--makes life interesting, does it not??!!
Wonderful style!
like your thoughts and this shot too...smile
I love so much this kind of images that i only can say: She(She-because it´s alive)!She speaks,She dance,She is a world of knowledge! This is STRONG,INTENSE AND WONDERFUL.