Tuesday, September 28, 2010

An Autumn Traveller and a Postscript

I fell in love with this image the moment I saw it, 
in fact I have been saving it for months...
for the first true Autumn day. 
It has arrived.


It is hard not to miss the details, there are so many.
I wonder who lives here and what the objects say about the owner.
I imagine this to be the entry in the home of a traveller, in autumn. 

I wonder....
The six framed prints, maps of where, significance to the traveller?
The paper on the ceiling, a Tapa cloth from the South Pacific? 
The traveller likes orange, disposition of the traveller?
The chandelier, origins?
The leaf motif container of walking sticks, one for each country travelled?
Hat, boots and a throw...man, woman, age?
Freshly picked branches of berries, does the traveller live in the country?
Books on the creative genius, Tage Andersen, is the traveller from Copenhagen?
A collection of memories arranged on the table, family heirlooms?
The cream rug, does the traveller have children and dogs?
The table, and objects under the table, were they collected in travels?
The chair inviting us to sit and read...does the traveller do the same?

To add to the mystery, I can not recall where this image came from.
It has been in my magazine files for some time.
A mystery, just like the traveller.

By coincidence, 
I took the photo below this afternoon,
a quick snap of beautiful flowers
given to me by a dear friend. 
She knows me well...my favourite colour.


And in the reflection, 
my hat sits on my collection of
walking sticks, to remember where
I have been and where I am going.
and...


an autumn travel memory from
Papua New Guinea

How about you,
who do you think lives in this house? 
Are you an autumn traveller?

POSTSCRIPT

Thank you all for your comments...
I am happy to see that I am not the only one 
who likes to look at a picture and look for possibilities. 
What is wonderful about an image like this is what we can take 
and create in our own homes...here are a few of the clues you left for me.

Something from Hermes for Hostess..

Animal prints or a statue on the Dr. Dolittle theme for Angela..

A pair of sexy black boots for Lou...

A collection of one's favourite things to welcome one home..
things that whisper possibilities,
 just as Kerry so eloquently suggested.

A hat for Christina @ RIver Rose because 
I think the hat is just as much her as me :)

Roses for Donna because she loves them.

A collections of Maurie's personal photographs taken 
on her one of her sojourns into her lovely wooded park.

An orange silk flamenco shirt worn by Wilderness for a grand entrance.

I love all these little clues you have given me here...
any more?

What would you take from this photo and add into your own entry?


images~me
with exception of
the first photo,
source unknown.

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