you may find yourself in another world

[asakiyume]

It starts when you wander down a desolate road. . .



You look up and find the sky is strange . . .



Ahead, there is a smooth green expanse. . .



Do not put a foot to it. You will slip through, and under. The green will close above you, and be just as still and smooth as it was before. No one will know what has become of you, and no one who passes by the green place will suspect you lie below.

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[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I hope this posts.

Do not put a foot to it. You will slip through, and under. The green will close above you, and be just as still and smooth as it was before. No one will know what has become of you, and no one who passes by the green place will suspect you lie below.

*shiver*

So, a story?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

So, a story?

I think probably so, but not sure when. Right now Pen Pal's got its talons in me.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I am cheering on the talons!

[sovay]

You look up and find the sky is strange . . .

I'm hearing David Byrne narrating this . . .

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Well, he entered my head, too, about the time I wrote the subject line :-P

[sovay]

Well, he entered my head, too, about the time I wrote the subject line

You may have to make him a character.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Coated in duckweed

[sovay]

Coated in duckweed

It won't be any stranger than some of the things he's worn.

[barry-king.livejournal.com]

There is a meadow nearby which is about thirty years further into the process of beaverization. At this point, the soil has filled in, but the ground is still perfectly flat and absolutely solid with horsetail. At certain times of the year, it looks similar to your green expanse, but clouded with plants, like a green mist on water.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

*shiver*

You'll definitely never be recovered once the horsetails and soil take hold.

(I used to be scared of horsetails, because they looked like snakes. I told my sister they were called vemin (sic--I was thinking of venom, but that's not what I said) shooters.)

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Before the dinosaurs were around, there were forests of giant horsetails.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I think of that sometimes, when I see them, or when I see tall ferns--or ginko trees. Ancient ancient species.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

That green expanse looks like somewhere swans like to hang out. Are there any stories or legends or dreams about people wandering into swamps and becoming swans?

[duccio.livejournal.com]

Or people who lose it when they see that green pool's expanse, begin to imagine themselves to be... swans, maybe, and slip off into that green, floating island world to shake off their mortal coil. Actually, I think this happens all the time. No one notices (or maybe they do) that their acquaintance is slipping under, maybe never to be known here again.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

This--this is exactly how it is.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

[duccio.livejournal.com]

All three are really interesting photographs, moody and evocative. They contain many stories.

At the auction place I go to monthly, often there will be a painting of dark nights with cloudy skies, like your second photo.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Such clearly visible yet unreachable drama--such architectures and furies and glories. We see it, we feel the effects--but can't touch or be in that sky ocean.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

The second photo looks like a view of the ocean from beneath the water, with the waves rolling, rolling over you.

Re: "You will slip through, and under"

I often go walking alone, and as you know, I wander around a bit in search of edible plants. I have this fear of falling into a hole or the covered cellar of a long-gone house and dying there because no one knows where I am. :(

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Haven't been able to reply all day, though I've been thinking of you! Is your area one of the parts of France that's seen a lot of depopulation? (And thus has abandoned houses here and there?) It's like that in parts of New England, too--it was a more settled area in the 1800s than it is now, in places (though where I am, there's since been an uptick in population again).

Be prudent! I don't want you to slip into a cellar.

... I must find your link on milkweed silk, if LJ will let me get to your LJ. I have a feeling we're approaching the milkweed silk season, now.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Many, many houses are abandoned in my village (due to the mechanization of grape harvesting), but out where I go walking, I think people have known for centuries that it is susceptible to floods and have not built many houses there. There may be abandoned wells, etc., but I think it is more paranoia on my part than real danger.

Don't know if you were successful with accessing my lj; if not, here is the link for milkweed: http://foragersharvest.com/milkweed-a-truly-remarkable-wild-vegetable/

(My post on milkweed is the 6th one that pops up on google when you do a search for "milkweed wildcrafting silk." :P

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I got your comment by e-mail and went to the page--and have picked some pods. **fingers crossed**

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go looking for pods today, too, so fingers doubly crossed. :P

[desert-sparrow.livejournal.com]

You could have been the writer for The Invaders, which I consider to have had the finest written intro in television.
http://youtu.be/uOLGrXOtuwQ

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I have never seen that show but those introductory credits are marvelous!

[desert-sparrow.livejournal.com]

The sequence of your photos and captions mirrored David Vincent’s lonely country road. You only lacked the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Or did you?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Perhaps that's what lies beneath that smooth green surface.

[desert-sparrow.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photos, I should have prefaced.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Very glad you liked them.

[writeonq.livejournal.com]

Hauntingly beautiful! And even more treacherous at night, no doubt, with deceptively pretty fairy lights and echoes of lullabys that entice one towards the water!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Definitely with music and lights, come the nighttime.

[eseme]

Your photos and words are so lovely! I have been enjoying your photo-essays (when I can get to them).

Thank you for your art.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's my pleasure--thank you for stopping by to take a look.

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Lovely, as always. I wonder what's under there.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hapless victims that don't know they've drowned! Giant eels!

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Vegetal folk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Thing)!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes THAT!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

whoa i have never seen so much duckweed in my life!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It was surreal. It really looked like it might be solid, like rock or glass, with dead trees embedded in it.

[seajules]

Down here, that smooth green expanse would be hiding at least one gator, and still no one would know what had become of you. They could guess, though.

I do love your pictures, and here's hoping this comment goes through.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It did come through!

I imagine something huge and serpentlike under there. Or, the green itself is a mouth.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

I love the way you wove this story around the photos, or perhaps it was the other way around and you found exactly the right photos for the story. I'm also very impressed by your story's brevity and creepiness and wonderfulness. Thank you for sharing this.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The photos came first-when I saw the green water, I started thinking.....