solid metaphors

[asakiyume]

I went to photograph the Band-aid from yesterday (which upon closer inspection may not be a Band-aid at all; so much for waxing lyrical). I went in a rain-snow drizzle, and on the way I found these hulking, shining, solid metaphors.

Side tracks and switch--do you want to change direction?



You may wish to switch tracks, but you probably don't want to be sidelined.


How long, how long must I wait here?

This isn't really a metaphor, but I like the promise of a golden west, here in the gloomy east. Not sure how trustworthy that promise is, though.



PS--seems I've seen the same thing, had the same thought, and shared it here before--but at a better time of year (link)

Comments

[sartorias]

Those colors look positively autumnal!

[asakiyume]

Wakanomori and I were saying that with weather like this it's hard to remember that we're heading into spring/summer and not back into winter.

[sovay]

Those colors look positively autumnal!

It feels autumnal! The weather lately is the wrong end of cold and raw.

[asakiyume]

This year the season has stretched on so long--I know that really April is always bare, but still ... this year feels longer.

[amaebi]

you made me think how funny it s, in your metaphor, to excoriate the existence and use of switches as a form of moral flimsiness. And then t realize thatthe same folks, in this metaphor, disapprove profoundly of junctions.

[asakiyume]

Especially since the path a train must follow is so rigid!

[sovay]

I went in a rain-snow drizzle, and on the way I found these hulking, shining, solid metaphors.

Those are some really good metaphors. Also graffiti.

[asakiyume]

Yeah, I liked the graffiti too.

[mallorys_camera]

This really does seem like the winter that will never end, doesn't it?

I like your original Band-aid theory. :-)

[asakiyume]

It seems like in reality it was a piece of some sort of mesh, but maybe that just goes to show that concrete requires bandages that are a little more solid.

[khiemtran]

It's interesting, looking at the tracks, how archaic they look. Tens of thousands of sleepers, just to get anywhere, which will all need to be replaced. Points that need regular tending and fixing. Gravel that will wash away over time. And yet, this is literally what our world runs on.

[asakiyume]

You're right. I never thought that about train infrastructure (even though I've seen the new sleepers waiting to be laid down and the piles of discarded ones), but I think about it a lot about roads: it takes such effort to repave them, and they begin to deteriorate immediately.