thefleetingworld

October 17, 2021 Street scenes - garages and parking places

The doors that saw many things pass

“Why did he choose to come to my door,
the wandering youth, when the day dawned?
As I come in and out I pass by him every time …”

(R.Tagore in the gardener)
Liège (B)

October 12, 2021 Landscapes

Watch out for the teeth of this pony

“I had a little pony,
His name was Dapple Grey:
I lent him to a lady
To ride a mile away,
She whipped him, she lashed him,
She rode him through the mire;
I’ll never lend my nag again
For any lady’s hire.”

(Anonymous in Nurse Lovechild’s Legacy)
Liège (B)

October 3, 2021 Landscapes

A 3-course meal served for birds

“All islands to which birds wing their way, I wing my way myself.
Toward all,
I raise high the perpendicular hand—I make the signal,
To remain after me in sight forever,
For all the haunts and homes of men.”

(W. Whitman in Salut au Monde!)
Liège (B)

September 20, 2021 Street scenes - buildings

How do I find Gerard here?

“You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, “Who is that man?””

(Bob Dylan in Ballad of a thin man)
Eindhoven (NL)

September 15, 2021 Street Scenes

A garden full of lines and colours

“The Lord God planted a garden
In the first white days of the world;
And placed there an angel warden,
In a garment of light unfurled.
So near to the peace of heaven,
The hawk might nest with the wren;
For there, in the cool of the even,
God walked with the first of men.”

(D.F. Gurney in God’s garden)
Liège (B)