thin ice

It's unwise.
You could loose ground; break through.
You could catch a cold, or worse even, and be down sick for weeks.

And still we've all done it when we were young: walking on thin ice.

Not knowing whether it will hold.
Fear the worst.
But still hope for the best, for excitement which might be ahead.

But we're grown-ups now, aren't we?
Being in our senses, we won't do anything so stupid, and we shouldn't.

But still - but still ...

It makes you feel so alive.

We've all but forgotten how it feels like.
We shouldn't really try the real thing, as I have done there when taking this shot.
But how about figuratively, in our lifes - from time to time?

Life's so beautiful, we should live it.

I only re-discovered recently that this is so.
And that, indeed, both pleasure and pain might be ahead if you try.

And, most importantly, that even the latter is better than neither.

fence

fence

hence

whence I take my stance

surely's from behind the fence

relativity

You cross a bridge but you go through a tunnel. Now choose.

I did. Or didn't.

And you never cross a bridge twice, nor do you go through the very same tunnel two times in your life - because this is not what happens in real. In real life there are several tunnels to go through, and bridges to cross. Do the right thing, but don't think twice because what is there for you to conquer might not be there any more after rethinking.

what is of importance

what is of no importance

is not what you haven't

but what you do not need

wheat

Wheat: bread.

beauty

Beauty does not need words.

[Rosa canina - wild roses - wilde Rosen + Linum austriacum - Austrian flax - Österreichischer Lein.]

roses

I prefer

wild roses

over tamed ones.

no text

even

no text

is text

tractor tracks

A farm tractor worked this symbol into the ground, to remind us of how much AIDS even has changed the lifes of the non-infected.

I happened to pass by these tracks recently. They certainly made me think.

About life, about everything.

Nevertheless, what we non-infected hope for is only to keep it that way. And that's exactly what has changed in our lifes; which is insignificant, compared to infected one's.

pool

There's no bad weather.

There's only bad pictures.

stones

Stones.

Non-rolling ones.

Steady like.

support

Sometimes we only need a tiny little wee bit of support.

But most of the time, like this mast, we need it permanently.

Ever thought of that?

soil

You have to plough the fields as long as they are dry.

And you have to sow the seeds as long as the fields are damp.

Well, that's about it.