Sometimes in life we miss out because we are in a rush. When in Warsaw, I am always seeing people whirl around me, running for buses, trams, trains when chances are they would only need to wait a maximum of ten minutes for the next one. When we rush, we miss the little things. I remember when I would catch the train to work and walk down Rundle Mall in Adelaide. At first I would always rush to get to work early, then one day a woman smiled at me, it made me smile. I then continued to smile at people as I walked down the mall those morning following, some people smiled back, some thought I was a serial killer but it was this that slowed me down. Then I started to look around me, it was so early in the morning there wasn't many people to be smiling at like a chuckle headed loon, so I started to look past the shop window displays and the horribly ugly signage associated with sales, new shipments, or whatever else they would try to rope the customers in with. I looked up, I saw the old building facades the beautiful bricks that you would never see in the "glitz" of the shop fronts. From then on I have tried to look at all the little things around me. From sewer covers, to building finishes. So this post is about the little bits of a 100 year old barn in Sokolka.
The devil is in the detail.
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| hinge |
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| More hinge |
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| A different Hinge |
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| hook and chain |
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| knot of wood |
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| Knot and gap with straw |
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| Banging on |
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| The door |
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| Nail and Grain |
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| Knocked out knot |
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| Nailed wood end |
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Wire in the sky
So maybe now when you are out and about check out the small things around you. |
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2 comments:
I like this .... yes slowing down to notice the lovely things.
Thanks Erin, it is something I notice even more here in Poland. Probably because I am always on public transport. Hope you and the family are well :)
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