Walk away from your dreams?

[squirmelia]

The little girl twirled, and then wildly bounded past the boathouse, disturbing the castle's reflection crackling on the water that I was taking photographs of. She stopped for a moment and said the words, "walk away from your dreams." When the little girl and her family ahead of her disappeared from sight, possibly towards the daffodils, my mum asked me what the girl's words were that we had heard earlier. I told her, feeling a bit sad and definitely contemplative, as we walked away from Scotney Castle.

The picture did not appear in my dreams though: Part of a tree in Eynsford that ignored barbed wire to the extent of growing over it.

Comments

[praest76.livejournal.com]

What a horrible child. Adults wouldn't get away with bumming people out like that, but children can do anythign and we just say "She's a child, she doesn't know any better".

"Mummy? Why is that man crying?

"Because you told him he was going to die"

"But it's true mummy, everybody dies..."

There are trees here that have barbed wire imbedded in their trunks. Been there for decades. the rest of the wire has been cut away but these ends protrude from inside the trunk, the rest swollowed by the tree. I should photograph them. I'll see how my camera is tomorrow. She migth not be up to it. She's getting very old.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I thought maybe she was quoting lyrics. It sounded sort of like lyrics, maybe that she had heard an adult sing.

I've got some more pictures of trees from the same place that have grown over barbed wire too, but that one just looked so weird to me, where as the others just made me feel kind of sad, but I guess it doesn't hurt them really.