“Much of it was just ordinary aging” – Under the Sign of the Moon by Tessa Hadley
2 thoughts on “Much of it was just ordinary aging”
Nice shot.
I like the battered hull in the foreground, and the way everything fades to a gradual blur behind it. It’s a really cool effect.
And though it bears the signs of what Tessa Hadley calls ‘ordinary aging’, it is nonetheless a boat….and for some, there is an ineffable je ne sais quoi about boats. Looking at the them, saiing in them, just being on them, for some, that seems to be enough.
Like Rat says to Mole, near the beginning of Kenneth Grahame’s ‘Wind in the Willows’ –
“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
I’ve never shared Rat’s feelings about boats, btw. But I imagine that someone, somewhere, once….really loved this boat. And – did I already mention? – I like the photo.
This is the hull of one of the many barges that go up and down the Main river and the Rhine river. I like taking photographs of the battered rusty hulls and all the weathered stuff on the decks. A world and way of life that is really exotic to me.
Over the weekend some of the barges pause here – usually coming/going from/to the Netherlands and Switzerland. All up and down the Rhine.
Nice shot.
I like the battered hull in the foreground, and the way everything fades to a gradual blur behind it. It’s a really cool effect.
And though it bears the signs of what Tessa Hadley calls ‘ordinary aging’, it is nonetheless a boat….and for some, there is an ineffable je ne sais quoi about boats. Looking at the them, saiing in them, just being on them, for some, that seems to be enough.
Like Rat says to Mole, near the beginning of Kenneth Grahame’s ‘Wind in the Willows’ –
“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
I’ve never shared Rat’s feelings about boats, btw. But I imagine that someone, somewhere, once….really loved this boat. And – did I already mention? – I like the photo.
Thank you very much.
This is the hull of one of the many barges that go up and down the Main river and the Rhine river. I like taking photographs of the battered rusty hulls and all the weathered stuff on the decks. A world and way of life that is really exotic to me.
Over the weekend some of the barges pause here – usually coming/going from/to the Netherlands and Switzerland. All up and down the Rhine.