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Obscured Obelisk

April 16, 2008

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Obelisk Obscured ~ Canon 30d

Although fog renders this image incomplete by postcard standards, I've a unique image of the DC skyline, don't you think? Those unfamiliar with the landscape of my home town might be puzzled... what precisely, is obscured here? Look again, but this time with ancient Egypt in your mind's eye. If that didn't jostle your memory bank, then think of the most phallic of our nation's landmarks.

The Washington Monument, which is the same height as the great pyramid of Giza, played hide and seek beneath a thick cloak of fog last week. Nary a tourist was out and about in such dismal weather, but the moment I looked out the window Thursday morning I knew I had to drop everything to shoot the blossoms everyone wants to see in weather few would consider optimal.

Think again, silly tourists. Experiencing cherry blossoms ensconced in clouds caused such feelings of peaceful elation I couldn't help but cautiously glance backward ~ had angel wings sprouted beneath my shoulder blades in the middle of night? Did I transition to "the other side" in my sleep last night unawares? Such huge allowances for mysterious beauty are reserved only for ghosts and angels, for creatures inhabiting eternal spaces. And then I remembered all are eternal, but all not so aware of the beauty of fog and blossoms and the opportunity to enjoy them melded together so early on an April morn.

Posted by susan at April 16, 2008 12:00 AM

Comments

oh my goodness...i love this pic...it is so beautiful...all the more so because of the fog and the way the color gently pops against the gray...

Posted by: michelle/tangled wings at April 17, 2008 05:33 PM

Stunning, Susan. Absolulely breathtaking. The colors, the fog, the reflection............ and your words tell it in even more detail. Congratulations.

Posted by: janet at April 18, 2008 11:20 AM

Yeah, there is just something sacred in the dance of life as it is and there is something magical in the way things just exist; some vibrancy of isness that just softly touches the heart so deeply in unimanginable ways and those silly tourists run for cover in the rain and fog and miss the really juicy stuff. It makes me think of my meditations and sometimes when you can sit with the uncomfortable stuff, the obscurity and confusion and frustrations, that you can see the cherry blossoms in the fog and notice that you are perfect just the way that you are and your own Buddha nature peeks through and gives a little wink. Something like that maybe?

Posted by: Bob at April 21, 2008 04:42 PM

OH SUSAN.. your photos are INCREDIBLE!!!! Breathtaking.

Thank you for sharing such beauty!!!

xo

Posted by: tracie Huskamp at April 22, 2008 09:34 AM