three wayside stories

[asakiyume]

One: The Sparrow Entrepreneurs




You can have a shopping cart, but you must pay to rent them.

The rent is cheap though: a few crumbs of bread or bits of cracker will buy you several hours.

Don't forget to pay the ones who live below, too:






Two: The Stream Thorns

In winter, this stream grows giant thorns. They make good swords, I'm told: the blood of those they strike congeals into rubies and garnets.






Three: The Glazier and the Vandal

The glazier and the vandal play a game here. No one else knows the rules, except that when the glazier scores, a window pane appears, and when the vandal scores, a window pane disappears.

Comments

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

I like the second picture a lot.

For some reason, this is making me think of John Crowley.

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Love the sparrow enterpreneurs!!

[tltrent.livejournal.com]

Love the light in these pics, esp. the first. And the blood of rubies and garnets...I am so sad I can't make art.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

three little gems, all lined up in a row!

[sovay]

I love all of these.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

We met some very brazen little sparrows on the High Line yesterday, just hanging out on this birdhouse/feeder/sculpture completely unperturbed by all the surging crowd passing by.

The glazier seems to be behind;then again, I wonder if there are more full or empty windowframes in the world right now. A global game between them would be very hard to track.

[deponti.livejournal.com]

Delightful, and thought-provoking....such wonderful photographs. Thank you, A! My post today is for you :)

Again with the Win!

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Delightful all, but I admire those sparrows' entrepreneurial spirit. Also, that "glazier" pic is just lovely, and that sky is something else.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Spare a crumb for the sparrows, sir?

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

You always make me smile with these. I don't always have time to tell you, but it's true. :)

Love the thorns most of all this time.

[bondo-ba.livejournal.com]

Your pictures are so wintery... While down here, the temperature outside is over 30 degrees celcius.

The ice in the picture with the thorns is so welcome!

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I wonder what it is with sparrows and shopping carts? I see them hanging out on (and under) them at Stop & Shop all the time. :)

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

You are so brilliant.

[wendigomountain.livejournal.com]

Sometimes while waiting in the parking lot, I watch the finches peck bug parts out of radiators and tires, or flit away with a stray french fry in their beaks. I think of Charles Darwin and his speciation theory and think that one day, hundreds if not thousands of years from now, a species of finch will become endangered because GM or Ford discontinued radiators in their cars, and their beaks will have become so specialized to that shape that the birds can no longer survive without them to provide tasty bug tussels for sustenance.

[dudeshoes.livejournal.com]

Wonderful stories. Do you have to be feeling cheerful to be this creative, I wonder? Today for some reason I don't feel cheerful, and I think that's the reason it's hard to create the haiku I want on blue claw crabs.

[pjthompson]

I like all of these, but I love the first one with the sparrows and the shopping carts.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

De-lurks (inspired by today's Fandom Snowflake (http://akamine-chan.dreamwidth.org/251419.html#cutid1) challenge) to tell you how much I really enjoy these posts, the sensitive and imaginative photographs and the amazing storytelling in your text. Thank you so much for sharing them.

[avalonestel.livejournal.com]

Love the gorgeous photos, especially the one of the birds under the carts, and the stream swords made me shiver! <3