asakiyume: (glowing grass)
2014-06-08 11:44 pm

the creek, the guardrail, the cars, and the shadows of leaves

There is a tiny creek that I love to pass by; it's a little cleft in the land, and it's protected from automotive intrusion by a guardrail. This winter, the guardrail was not sufficiently strong to prevent a wayward car from forcing its attentions on the creek:

memory

For several months thereafter, the guard rail lay like that, much more intimate with the creek than it had every been before. Finally, the highway department put in a shiny new guardrail.

. . . But the other day I went by and . . .

guardrail

This time it almost looks deliberately rammed, as if its very shininess was provocation.

There's shivered safety glass in the crannies:

shatterproof

I like the green shadows of the leaves on the post: