Round Robin Photo Challenge...Norwegian Wood

When I saw this suggestion from Kiva at Eclectic Granny I thought what in this world could this mean?

"I'm into a Beatles mood this week.Norwegian Wood - take a photo of anything wooden.Merriam Webster defines the word "wooden" as: 1. made or consisting of wood. 2. lacking ease or flexibility, awkwardly stiff (e.g., wooden performer, a wooden speech). A picture of John Wooden or anyone named Wooden qualifies."

So I got to thinking...which is tough these days...and then I thought some more. I was sitting here at the desk this morning looking out the window at all the water in the backyard....ohhhhhh...and saw that we have an enormous amount of wood or wooden things that I can see from my bedroom window. So take a look out the bedroom window with me.
These barn shadows show up every morning around 8AM. I love our little barn that the Amish men built for us in ond day. It is one thing I want to take with me if we ever leave this place. I was looking for more wood with shadows and found this railroad tie. When we first moved in we dismantled a "fish" pond and found probably 10 railroad ties buried in the sand. We put them to good use as edges to some flower beds. I love the way plants volunteer to grow up through them.We still have a couple of wood piles from two years ago when we cut down some ugly trees. And I have some logs that my grandfather gave me from Canada. I can't seem to burn those. Anyway, I just thought these were cool looking logs. Clothes pins. These remind me of my childhood. We didn't have the kind with the spring in it...we had the plain old straight clothes pins. I love laundry that dries in the wind and the sun. My family disagrees with me on this one. They would rather dry their stuff in the drier...and waste all that energy. I noticed when I was taking this picture that something has been rooting around in the pins...do squirrels like them for some reason? What is your best guess on this one? Just another rail road tie taking up space in the backyard. Actually it holds a suet feeder on the other side. I just thought the crack was interesting. This is a section of the fence line between Luke's and our houses. We put in a flower bed the entire length of the fence. Things are really starting to come up this year. The old sled is one of my favorite treasures in the yard...and I have a few treasures...I am soaking morning glory seeds as we speak to plant tomorrow at the base of the sled. I am hoping that they will grow up the sled then on to the fence.We have several naked ladders leaning around here. Soon they will be holding up climbers...that is if it stops raining long enough to get out to plant the seeds.
Hope you enjoyed our wooden tour...come back again and see what the other Round Robin Photo Challenges will be. If you want you can go to the web site and check out all the other entries, just click on RRPC.

Comments

Your photos are beautiful! So many pretty things in your yard to look at. That barn is amazing and I love the little ladder to be used as a trellis - that's a great idea!
leigh ann said…
surely emmy ellis wouldn't say no to saving energy by hanging clothes out to dry.
Carly said…
WOW!
You have some marvelous photos here, really good examples. I was thinking about the challenge last week, and making a list of as many things wood as possible, and I kept thinking that I was forgetting something. Clothes Pins! I completely forgot about clothes pins! It has been so long since I have used one! LOL. Excellent entry!

Always, Carly
Nice collection of pix!

I played too :)
Monica said…
Beautiful photographs with nice texture and details.

Monica
Gattina said…
Nice variety of wood !
Anonymous said…
you are awesome, you really have a knack for this picture taking stuff. I love your barn too!!
MyMaracas said…
Your pictures are wonderful. I love all the textures and subtle shadings in them. And yes, your clothespin rustlers are probably squirrels. They're curious little things.

Somehow, looking at your photos this morning made me feel so at home, so peaceful. You have a beautiful place.
MyMaracas said…
P.S. ... You know, wooden bowls start out as a thick slice from a log. You might want to look around for a local artisan who could turn a few for you from your grandfather's logs, instead of burning them. If it's especially nice wood, he/she might even do your bowls in exchange for keeping some of the raw logs for other projects.
Kiva said…
Isn't it amazing how much wood you have around you and you just haven't looked for it before. The barn is lovely, you are so lucky. I haven't seen wooden clothes pins for years. That takes me back a bit. What wonderful expose of a simple topic.
This is an excellent selection of shots, with great composition, and lots of detail and texture. Well done!
Wendy said…
Nice pictures! I like the one of the clothespins; it reminds me of my grandmother.
Peter said…
Thanks for the warm welcome, my photo is of a ribbon gum which is quite common in the high country of Victoria Au, it was taken from the road side while on a sightseeing/photoshoot drive last spring.

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