Thursday Challenge: Light -

"Christmas Light 2011"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... better to light one candle
than to curse the darkness ..."
- The Christopher Society

Home décor -

"The Cross and the Candle"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... excuse my scribbling,
it is late, and I have
a poor candle ..."
- Henri Rousseau

Thursday Challenge: Trees -

"Trees I"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

The theme is trees at Thursday Challenge this week. I should say, and any who've followed this blog for any length of time can agree, I have plenty of images from which to choose for this topic. Not wanting to drift too far into the obvious, it occurred to me that a recent photograph taken in the living room - of some interesting patterns of light - also features an old photograph of mine. Standing in a cheap, paper frame just beyond a most interesting floral candle, is an old shed. It sits, perched beyond the crest of a hill, among a small stand of mature, experienced oaks. Their position and the battered, well used demeanor of the shed gave up one of my favorite double entendre titles: "Over the Hill".