July 9, 2008
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Self Portrait Challenge
(July’s theme: skill)
Skill #1: flying
I love to swing, but it does not love me. Over the past 5 years I have felt increasingly dizzy and slightly queasy after swinging for any length of time but I still adore it. Trevor built this swing in the woods for us, on a branch of a 200 year old maple tree and it has a long, slow arc that makes you feel as if you are flying in slow motion.
And I do love to fly.
even when it is not perfect.
Comments (10)
This is wonderful, delicate and oh so dreamy!!! I suffer from motion sickness and I too LOVE to swing and am not quite able to do it for too long for the same reasons! http://x50.xanga.com/1e9d0bfb5843399622941/w70116240.gif
MY SPC post is called Miming around…check it out!
I noticed that the other day, that I can’t swing without feeling sick! I’ve never been motion sick before. Is this part of getting old? Becasue I don’t like it. Losing bladder control, I’m okay with LOL. Gray hair? I don’t care. Flab? What the heck. But not being able to SWING………that really bothered me.
How wonderful. Great shot to be able to capture what you are feeling!
Me too! It is really annoying. I love the flying pictures.
:love:
awesome!
Ahhh…there is nothing like the slow, huge arc of a swing like that!!!!! The way a swing is meant to be! Yours sounds like the chocolate coke of all swings!!!!
I get queasy and dizzy on swings now, too. Also while doing a somersault, and sadly, I imagine roller coasters may be that way now, too. Why is that? Is it because we don’t move like that on a regular basis anymore?
The queasy/dizzy thing has been happening to me, too. Just in the past couple of years… is it growing older or can I blame childbirth? :frog:
Your photographs are so lovely.
I cannot swing either. As an adult I get all dizzy and queasy as well. Something that never happened as a child. My sensitivity to motion (roller coasters, boats, swings, baskseat car rides, spinning in circles, laying flat on my back, etc.) has increased as I got older. My mom has the same problem.
This does make life with a toddler challenging at times though.
wow…looks wonderful!
I love to swing. I’ve been getting sick on swings since high school, but I still jump on and try to go as high as I can. Your swing sounds lovely.