messages
open closed missing
gates can talk
This is my contribution to the one a week week Photo Challenge and the challenge is is Gate . For this years challenge planned by Cathy and Sandra visit Cathy’s blog at https://nanacathydotcom.wordpress.com/one-a-week-photo-challenge-2017/
These three gates tell different stories. The first entices one into a Japanese garden in Brisbane of all places. The second is our old gate at home with Kara letting passing people and dogs know they need to beware. The third is a missing gate at the Griffith Island Lighthouse near Port Fairy. In fact the gate is not all that is missing from the old Keepers cottage, this fence and a few bluestones is all that shows where the settlement stood.
Haiku hound 
Ahh! A Japanese gate – lovely and I love the gate that isn’t there! Your own gate must have cast some interesting shadows. Thanks for your entry Denis.
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Not quite a Japanese Japanese gate Sandra but close except for the lawn inside!! our gate has always been the window to the outside for all our dogs , they spent a lot of time standing , sitting and passing through that old gate and Charlie with the new one. It is so important for a dog to see beyond the home and yard.
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Interesting photos showing that gates can tell a story. Very concise haiku, Denis. 🙂
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Thanks Olga, it all came together when I dug out a few gate images from my library
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Love the image of a gate talking… open.. it’s telling a story. closed… it’s not budging
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Thanks Annette, and a missing gate, where why and how?
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Great haiku to accompany the photos! The last pic is very well framed, definitely inviting.
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Thanks Melissa. I will usually only do a challenge post if there is a photo in my library rather than go out and seek one, then the haiku comes. Any other post can be either haiku or image generated.
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A clever haiku 🙂 and interesting photos of gates and Kara, a beautiful dog.
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Thanks Janice, I had a choice of Afghans at that house gate but Kara was a the one who let no stranger in, a very serious guard dog .
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I love how gates can talk and the photo of Kara on high alert is wonderful!
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Especially ones needing oil Xenia. That gate at our house gave a click as it was opened and brought many Afghan Hounds to attention.
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Love the dog standing guard!
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That was Kara, Cathy. She was a guard dog first, very protective and sometimes embarrassing .
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That lighthouse photo is breathtaking 😊
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It is a fascinating lighthouse, sitting out on a spit beside a river mouth. This is from my childhood stamping grounds, now a long way from home.
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Three fascinating gates Denis, a bit like open doors they promise a tantalising glimpse of what lies beyond.
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Gates do that , they can lead in all directions especially the ones that are missing.
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Hi Denis! I love, ‘gates can talk’. Brilliant haiku and pictures.
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Thanks Vashti,I have always thought they do.
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