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As the night air cools, the city slows and settles on its foundations, relaxing its garments and emptying its mind, easing down. The darkened lane meanders still, up the rise and over the hill, the incandescent globe marking the way through tattered papers and abandoned cars.
Naked branches creak as dew descends, the spring sap still far from flowing. A door slam echoes across the void, a dog barks a warning, a gruff voice responds.
Our weary worker wends her way through the deepening shadows, eschewing the frail bonhomie and heaving nightlife, returning to her stuffy home with its sink of stacked dishes, and her smalls pegged on twine across the dim courtyard. Back to her slippers and sherry, back to her aspidistra and cross-stitch, back to the land of the 7 o’clock News.
Back to her dinner for one on the rise, on the rise overlooking the beckoning town.
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Oh Julie! Thank you for the perfectly illustrated story. Or perhaps it's the perfectly worded illustration!
ReplyDeleteI feel I know that unknown worker very well!
I think dusk is such a magical time. Beautiful words and photograph.
ReplyDeletewhat a great shot of the dusk :) lovely magical foto! :D
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely time of day is dusk! Beautiful capture and lovely words that just about all of us can or have related to at one time or another. Enjoy your week!
ReplyDeleteSylvia
Simply beautiful word picture you composed for us. I see Dusk in a new light.
ReplyDeleteLovely picture of dusk, and the word picture story is so real, it makes the picture come to life.
ReplyDeleteLovely photo - I can only reiterate what Gramma Ann said above. :)
ReplyDeletenice narrative to go w the pic.
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
This shot has a wonderful atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo - poignant words.
ReplyDeletei love this kind of photos, dark and mysterious.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot, very beautiful ;)
ReplyDeleteWonderful shot, the color gradations are incredible.
ReplyDeleteI love dusk...it hold a certain kind of peacefulness. :)
ReplyDeleteI always like how the colors melt into the sky then eventual darkness. Nice capture.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully expressed, both in words and image.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful match of narrative and picture! Thanks Julie.
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Love your photo and your words. Happy Wednesday!
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You bring the magical qualities of dusk alive!
ReplyDeleteI want to go to there. Nice picture.
ReplyDeleteLove the reflections in this shot.
ReplyDeleteI often think of dusk as an alone time, bittersweet.
Thank you friends for your appreciation. I think research has confirmed that dusk is the 'depressive' time. As VioletSky noted, its beauty is bittersweet.
ReplyDeleteI have been doing some dusk shots on the trip. I find it both a beautiful and challenging time to photograph. How to get the dark vs light just right. In the city it is different from the desert because the building lights come on to give the black bits interest.
ReplyDeleteToday's prose is almost poetry.
Thank you for the final comment. I almost broke it into verse, but decided that detracted from the sound and sight image I wanted to weave. But poetry was on my mind as I crafted this. Which took much longer than my usual Riff although exactly the same length, 150 words.
ReplyDeleteThis is so deliciously written that I savoured every word. You certainly evoke the end of the day to perfection, you certainly sucked this reader right into the mood of the evening. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteOh what a beautiful photo and write-up. Dusk is one of my favourite times of day, along with dawn - I forgot about those D-words, now I want to start all over again... :)
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful that is!
ReplyDeleteI loved loved loved this post. Magical photo with words to go with.
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ReplyDeleteI just loved the photo.. Great...
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Love this. Thank God for Paddington.Slippers Sherry and smalls pegged on the line...My Sydney.
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