red swing

[asakiyume]

I saw this yesterday. It's not really in the woods; it's at the back of someone's backyard, which backs onto the woods. But it looks like it is. The woodcutter was alone in the world after the untimely death of her husband, so she took her child with her when she went a-felling in the forest. She strung up a swing so the baby could rock and sway and converse with the squirrels and the birds while she worked. (They have red plastic in this mythical nevertime.)

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[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I hope they're made of iron.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The bells are brass, but she's counting on the iron in the wire to do it.