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.

Comments

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

Wow. There's clearly something there, like a gateway...

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Yep, I agree with the Mouse - definitely something there. May not look as clear to you because you saw it in person, but the effect does come through.

[rainsingingwolf.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photos. You reminded me that I really need to go out to Mt. Charleston again.

[gothikfaerie.livejournal.com]

yes, yes, a Gateway. i get that feeling too. Of course if you walked towards, you wouldn't walk 'through', at least not yet. But i think places like that are Manifesting with increasing strength and clarity. Or maybe we're just getting better at Seeing them..

[sunshaker.livejournal.com]

Which park is this?

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Bleams Park (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=bleams+and+homer+watson,+kitchener,+on&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=43.410815,-80.461121&spn=0.014123,0.043259&om=1&iwloc=A), or Steckle Woods, as I think my CAA map calls it, at Bleams & Homer Watson. The driveway is tiny and hard to see, between Century Hill and Homer Watson.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

"Of course if you walked towards, you wouldn't walk 'through', at least not yet."

I dunno if I would ever! I dunno how much this applies to others, but this one seemed to have a definite element of "permission". As in, you couldn't wander through by sheer mistake, or by going "I'm cool and I can!". The had to want to let you through, or else you'd just find yourself taking a couple steps in the woods.

[gothikfaerie.livejournal.com]

The had to want to let you through, or else you'd just find yourself taking a couple steps in the woods.

That's what i meant by not being able to walk 'through'. Tho i guess i wasn't quite getting the *reason* for that. However, i've encountered that sort of effect before as well, at our old 'ghost woods' - sometimes you couldn't get across the bridge that led to the site, as if a "Sorry, No Humans Tonight" sign was strung across the entry.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's just a trick of the light, but the fallen leaves in the first three photos look purple. I've never seen leaves that particular color before. The fourth picture shows more detail and there are purple spots.

It does feel like a very special place. "The Place where Summer Goes" ...

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

The purplish cast to the leaves is mainly my camera being the stupid. It has trouble with certain colour combinations dominating the frame, sometimes, like green leaves on trees and red-brown dirt and fallen leaves, and over-cranks the blue in the colour balance. These are corrected some by doing levels in Photoshop, actually; the originals are worse. If I had been doing these for art's sake I would have corrected the colour balance to more like what my eyes saw, but these were just documentary so I only fixed them a little so the colour error wasn't egregious. But it's common for my camera to do this and I don't think that's part of the "woo" effects going on.