Through the Eyes of Sisters - Topic: Play

I chose the theme for this week - play.  It's funny that every week since we started I chose a theme with some specific ideas and not once has it translated yet into the actual photo I publish!  Heid's seemed to get it right - this was her idea and voila: photo of the international symbol for play.  I like it, its a good translation of the topic and it's original.

I wanted to do something musical.  I have a friend who is an incredibly talented pianist and I took a bunch of photos for her last year for her website - you can visit her here to see the pics and hear her beautiful soulful music http://tammyemersonreid.com/.  I also had an idea from a movie I watched and I took the photo and realized that the interpretation was a stretch so didn't pick it for my choice for the week.  The movie, As It Was In Heaven, is an international movie with subtitles about an incredibly talented conductor who is diagnosed with a heart problem and retires back to his rink-a-dink home town where he is roped into conducting the local choir.  I love the movie, it is one of my favorites and the opening scene is of the conductor as a young boy in a wheat field listening to the wind moving through the grass and playing a violin and he speaks about inspiration being all around us, and how he tries to translate what he hears and feels by 'taking the music down' onto paper.  So here is my grass photo - you can see why it didn't make the cut!

Here is one of the songs from the sound track for the movie titled 'Winter Landscape', it is so gentle don't you think?

Finally, here is my photo for the week - as you can see, my inspiration was entirely musical and the result?  Not a note insight!  But I was meeting a farmer coming in from Western Mass to pick up produce (he is very committed to providing less advantaged communities with access to nutritious organic produce and so runs a delivery program in this very densely populated area using a local bicycle service - it's  great initiative!)  and I saw this sign and snapped away.  It is very sad that these kids really do live in a concrete jungle, just to the right of the sign is a parking lot and there is not a blade of grass in sight - anywhere.  It makes me realize how fortunate our children are to have access to a big big garden, a pond accross the way, and a big forrest behind them.  Without even crossing country borders it is incredible to think how diverse your upbringing could be if you lived 30 miles apart. 

That's it from me this week - still waiting on Heids for next weeks topic so can't give you any clues this time round . . . you will just have to check in next Thursday (or Friday if you live in New Zealand and are 16 hours ahead of us)!