Finding The Right Perspective

This is another one of those sculptures that may work as a magic door, if you dare look through it instead of just circling around it. (Compare this post from yesterday.)

Nature's Magic Mirror

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I brought my camera with me on a walk the other day.

I love the way the trees are reflected in the water.

In the photo below it is almost hard to tell

which branches belong to which world...

Quotation of the Week 8/09

A few days ago, I started rereading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I bought my copy in 1983, not sure if I've reread it since then. Last night, n.b. after I had written yesterday's post with the "magic mirror" haiku poem here, I came to the following passage in chapter 7. It's the servant Nelly speaking to the young boy Heathcliff, in front of a mirror:

Oh, Heathcliff, you are showing a poor spirit! Come to the glass, and I'll let you see what you should wish. Do you mark those two lines between your eyes, and those thick brows, that instead of rising arched, sink in the middle, and that couple of black fiends, so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly, but lurk glinting under them, like devil's spies? Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes --

Magic Mirror

Today's writing prompt from The One-Minute Writer:

"Imagine you have a magic mirror.
What does it reveal about anyone who looks in it?"

My suggestion:

Magic mirror shows
not your faults and failures but
possibilities.

(Remember it next time you look in the bathroom mirror!)