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Angelwings Ch 1 Tom sat at the window, waiting for the inevitable.

Finally the sky was heavy with snow, and bruised clouds hung low to the horizon, turgid with the potential storm. Even the light held a yellow tinge where it managed to seep through to the world below. The ground had been frozen for days, the trees stark and naked against the sky, stretching up their arms as though they wanted to pierce holes in the clouds, but still no snow had come.

Every time he could snatch a glance Tom searched the sky for the first falling flakes. His limbs ached with the need to be outside, his grey eyes glowed with it, his mouth was pinched up with it. His snowshoes
More 100 Themes - 6-10 6. Pessimistic

She looked at herself and knew that this thing would spread. Whether it was age or illness, or both combined, it would spread and overtake her like algae creeping across a pond, until the light was shut out from her eyes and she was trapped and drowning and could not struggle to freedom. It would be – how long had the doctor said? Nine months, ten? A year perhaps? If only she could remember his precise words, but instead she had sat in his office with her eyes on small things – the edge of the desk, the paint that was beginning to yellow on the window frame – thinking of how all these small and tired things woul
More 100 Themes - 1-5 1. Life

It was an average, ordinary thing for her. It was a beautiful, unappreciated thing, like a swallow of water on a warm day, with no realisation that the beautiful cohesion of two hydrogen and one oxygen molecule would continue to give life and movement to her body. She walked through life like everyone else, a waking moment in the morning, tea slipping down her stagnant throat, the crunch of toast and the sweetness of honey in her mouth. A walk to work, the pavements grey and the sky grey above, the sitting at her desk and moving paper about and the constant fluorescent hum of the computer monitor as the mouse made spider tracks acros

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Snow drift wood. Wood that's been wrenched off in an autumn storm and left for winter snow.
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~Ewa5 Feb 24, 2010  Student Photographer
This is a wonderful photo. The only critique I have is that the telephone pole and wires are detracting , but overall a beautiful photograph.

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=Aconitum-Napellus Feb 25, 2010  Professional Writer
Thanks :XD: I should have a look at the pole etc - they'd be easy enough to remove, but I can hardly see them on my netbook screen :XD:

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~Ewa5 Feb 25, 2010  Student Photographer
haha yeah i know what you mean! I need a bigger screen also! IT is so hard to work on photos on this wittle bitty screen!!!

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"Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven , conscious of his fleeting time here." -Tool
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=Aconitum-Napellus Feb 25, 2010  Professional Writer
I should clean mine more often too :XD:

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Wyrd bið ful aræd - The Wanderer

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~Ewa5 Feb 25, 2010  Student Photographer
Same here!!!

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"Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven , conscious of his fleeting time here." -Tool
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~SuburbanAngst Dec 25, 2009
I enjoy these stark images of the lonely remnants of life lived. Just where the heck is this? It looks so desolate and COLD.

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Nothing wrong with doing something strictly for the joy of it - don't have to reinvent the wheel. Just here to have fun. :rose:
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=Aconitum-Napellus Dec 25, 2009  Professional Writer
Just across the lane from my mum and dad's house - I've been wandering in those fields for twenty years, and although there's a new landowner now there are still lots of footpaths, so I can still wander :D It's an odd place - fields that were not well looked after, and an abandoned farmhouse where someone committed suicide [link] (which I think is why the family no longer lived there...) But now it's been made into holiday cottages, and the fields are being 'looked after' (which is good in a way, but things I've known forever are changing...)

And it was cold :D Thawing now, though...

Ooh, you're still in Christmas Eve, aren't you? At least, I guess you haven't been to sleep yet! i'm enjoying Christmas morning :D

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~SuburbanAngst Dec 26, 2009
What a beautiful area. You'd go into shock if you saw what is called 'developement' out here. From 2000 to 2008 alone, the city I live in grew 17% in population (177,045 people currently). It's soulcrushing and beats me down when I think of it.

That other shot you linked was amazing. Was that cow dung being flung from that tractor? Lol. I've never seen anything like that.

Question that's been eating at me for a few days: Do you pack up your cats and take them with you on visits out of town?

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Nothing wrong with doing something strictly for the joy of it - don't have to reinvent the wheel. Just here to have fun. :rose:
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=Aconitum-Napellus Dec 26, 2009  Professional Writer
I guess I'm lucky really - the biggest 'city' I've lived in was York, which is such a glorious place that it doesn't matter it's a city. But I hate living in town. At the moment I live on the outskirts of Conwy, which is great as towns go, but still I want to be somewhere like my parents', where the nearest neighbour is two fields away. But they're pretty careful about development at least around here, to an extent. Lots of fields been built on down on the coast, but up where my mum and dad live it's a national park, so development is very restricted (by fifty-year-old Welsh men with a VERY odd idea of what's 'suitable' for the area, but that's another story... At least it stops people building all sorts everywhere...)

Yep, the other shot was of muck-spreading - the joyous task of filling the muck-spreader with cow manure and the like and flinging it over the fields to fertilise them :D It's actually a quite pleasant smell, in a way :D Luckily it snowed the next night and covered it all over before I went for a walk through those fields :D

And yes, when we come up to mum and dad's we pack up the cats and take them. They love it up here, and the other cats are getting used to them slowly. Mum and dad have three cats, four geese and six chickens, so we housesit for them when they go away, and taking the cats negates having to have someone look after our cats when we're looking after theirs.

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Mood: Wow! ~Dracornasus Dec 24, 2009
Wow! Awesome shot! The branches look very geometric... stunningly beautiful! <3

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