the place where summer goes

[arethinn]

enotsola and I went to a local park a couple days ago to visit one of the "power places" within it, mainly so that I could say a formalish farewell and give back a staff/stang that I had picked up and wasn't being "allowed" to take with me. I took a few pictures of the woods in their fall colours and most of them turned out fine. Before entering the "amphitheater" (the "seelie" side of the place in question - the spot is clearly divided on opposite sides of the path into "light" and "dark" halves), I noticed a sort of tunnel effect and "shiny spot" in the apparent distance at one edge of the bowl. I tried to take a few photos of the area, hoping to capture what I was see-feeling on "film", but as with many of the ones we tried to take at Woodside back in May, they turned out blurry for no apparent technical reason (e.g. they weren't just too long of an exposure thus camera shake, etc). Observe:

The "shiny spot" is a little left of center in this one, the widest view.



Zoomed in a bit more.



This one looks positively bent to me.



These are unaltered except for adjusting contrast so they were more like the colours I actually saw and resizing to fit on the screen. For comparison, here are some of the others taken minutes before that turned out fine:










The title of this post is because that is what the "locals" seemed to be calling the place, when I noticed it. In person it had a very strong feeling of "The Summer Country, This Way". Having been at this site earlier this year (May/June especially), I can say that it wasn't there before, but I guess that only makes sense.