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09-FEB-2005 Flick Merauld

Morning Sun & Aspects of Myself by Flick Merauld

This is sunlight coming through the curtains in my front room, my favourite part of the house apart from the loft.
The bottles were collected by me on a Victorian brick field (they were used as ballast for the kilns) and have been with me
everywhere for 30 years, from Canterbury to Oxford, Lincolnshire, Milton Keynes, Oxford again, Lincolnshire again, France and back to Oxford once more.
The drawn curtains are a fact of my life when I'm out of the room, since I have a nervous dog who barks at everyone who passes by otherwise.
This was a grabbed shot yesterday morning, but looking at it, I see how very much it represents aspects of me and my life.


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kodak_challenge13-Feb-2006 19:46
This is really beautiful Flick. Ilove the way you have captured the light. Kate
kodak_challenge13-Feb-2006 15:54
Hi charlie, thanks.
I used to listen to Talking Heads a lot, got to love that really large jacket!
I had Stop Making sense on vinyl, in fact i probably still do, but i never play vinyl now because the cats wrecked the speakers.
Flick.
Olympus DSLR Challenge13-Feb-2006 15:15
Looks like a home. Do you know the Talking Heads song "this must be the place" It keeps coming to mind when I see this photo. If not I recommend listening to it. (or read the lyrics online)

Love this photo.......

Charlie
Olympus DSLR Challenge11-Feb-2006 19:33
It's interesting that you say so. I wonder if it's the bedspread curtains that give that impression, being quite rough weave. In fact the window is a Victorian bay window, and the room is filled with everything from satin cushions and indian cushions to Buddhas, photos, prints, stripped floorboards, an Afghani kelim rug, Egyptian artifacts, an old Georgian pine chest, plants, an art nouveau mirror and so on. All very eclectic but very cosy.
Olympus DSLR Challenge11-Feb-2006 18:32
I like this very much Flick. Although it is taken in your Oxford home, it has an American SouthWest look to it (to me). SueMc
kodak_challenge11-Feb-2006 08:08
Sorry, can't spell. I think it's Pakistan!
kodak_challenge11-Feb-2006 08:02
Hi Chris and shirley. you're both right, I am peaceful and contented mostly. i love my home and being home. I travelled widely in my youth (overland on the hippy trail to the middle east, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakhistan - couldn't get to india as the borders were closed because of war with Pakhistan at the time); I've lived in different countries, but there's nowhere i love better than Oxford and my home now.
BTW, this is my living room not the kitchen. Those are makeshift curtains made from Indian bedspreads hung by the fringes - i like them because they let so much light through, though they are open during the day if i'm in the room.
Flick.
Shirley Haden11-Feb-2006 01:56
There's something very comforting about this photo. The sunlight through the kitchen window? Or is it the little glass bottles that make it feel so much like a home? Going home...that always makes one feel good doesn't it? Does this mean you are a homebody at heart? Would prefer this place rather than all the other places on the earth? It seems so.
Guest 10-Feb-2006 23:33
love the silhouetted effect. nice muted tones, too! if this represents you, then you're quite the peaceful, cheerful type (which i know that you are!).

christopher t.