Thoughtfactory: Rhizomes

bark, trees, roads, bushland

bark #5 (roadside)

I've  realised that I have been making roadside pictures without being consciously aware of my doing so.  My  concentration was  on the pieces of bark themselves, not their location.  This is a good example.   This  is another one in  black and white.  Then I realised that the location was often the roadside. 

The roadside pictures usually happen whilst  I'm  walking down back country soars (eg., Depledge Rd)  in Waitpinga on the  early morning poodlewalks with Maya.  A case in point -- in  the late summer of  2024 

I am often looking at the roadside whilst I'm walking and the photos that I make are  modest. They  are  of  ephemeral  objects that are insignificant in themselves.  Just like this one  --  a particular  moment  as the light shifted away within  a minute or so. 

The bark had dropped to the ground by the next morning, due to the  strong coastal south-easterly winds. The roadside  is usually very dusty as the roads are usually  unsealed with the occasional traffic throwing uo clouds of dust that eventually settles on the vegetation.   I often wonder how the vegetation survives and  is not choked by the layers of dust.