Wednesday 21 July 2010

Washing Lines


I need to look through all my photos for the images I have of washing lines around the coast because this is where the best pictures of washing lines are. This particular one is in a garden in a suburb of Manchester. And not enough breeze. Far, far, from the coast. I have a photo of men's socks on a line in Pitlochry. Clothes blowing next to a house by the west coast. The best is just sheets and sea and sky at Applecross. Deep rain leaden sky holding on to the late afternoon sun. The best. And what is the best is that it's transigent, but it is captured in the photograph and then the memory of those days is evoked as if it were now.

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