Beautiful!!! Love the simplicity of the iamage..and the colors of the long summer grasses against the darkening sky.

Kathryn: Marcie, thank you--those long summer grasses are in the process of telling us good bye with their waves...
I have visited your blog a couple of times (briefly) and was so taken with the way you view nature. I'll be back there today to look a bit more as I find it so soothing.

Lovely! I'm a fan of grasses and old fences!

Kathryn: Oh I am so glad, Mary. I love to watch the grasses.

Lovely Kathryn..Is this anywhere near your home?

Kathryn: it is on the tip top of the Brocken in the Harz Mountains here in Germany, Ada. When I was there this weekend, Mother Nature was unsure if she should cry or smile, so she vacillated like a a willful and capricious child for hours, while deciding.

Kathryn, I love these views, on Texel I see them and always staring into the sky.
Lovely picture, the grass is pure delight.

Kathryn: Astrid, it is so hard to capture the beauty of those grasses. They flirt waving and then bow their heads in such a coy way.

I kept looking at this and wondering why it didn't quite gel for me. Then I realised. If you flip this horizontally then the fence runs diagonally uphill from let to right and the grasses sway to the right and for me that just looks better. The eye then goes up and into the picture rather than down and out of it.

Kathryn: Thanks, Bill. This is just as I took it. I was more taken in by Mother Nature's pouty ways and herinability to make up her mind and the effects of her indecision on the lightening than I was with which way the fence is running.

Although now that I think about it, we do read from the from the top of the page left downward to the right so the flow is in accordance with many suggested theories of learning and design.

I'll give it a flip though and see it that does anything. My inclination is that it really won't effect the lightening or much else, but it will make you smile

There's something magical about this combination of darkening skies and bright sunlight. I also like the contrast of the solid bulk of the fence and the ethereal dancing grasses. Beautiful and simple.
Ingrid

Kathryn: Thank you so much, Ingrid. Ethereal dancing grasses---i do love that phrase.

I have seen so may view's like this of late, whilst out on my walks and never tire of them.

Kathryn: They are so beautiful now, Tracy. Those golden waves.

Oh my friend! I can see how you runing same ways throug the nature and capture the spirit of wind! Great shot!

Kathryn: Josep, nature has a way of wrapping her arms around us and begging us to run with her. The wind insists on it.

This is so totally my kind of image, Kathryn. Hmmm. I wonder why??!! L)

Kathryn: Ginnie--because you are a lover of nature and of Germany? How are you?

Excellent play of light with the darkening clouds and the sunlight reflecting on the grasses.

Kathryn: Yes it was, Louis and how are you?

Like Mary, I am a fan of fences too. And I simply adore clouds and skyscapes/cloudscapes. This is right up my alley.

Kathryn: Nice to know, but it is so hard to capture the essence of those coy grasses.

Grasses...independent spirits...are no respecters of those who would contain them.

Vacillating weather-monger, but emphatic grass, Kathryn.

I love this!

Kathryn: Independents spirits, most certainly Ray! Trying to contain an independent spirit is tricky business--a double edge sword. Containing them too closely squished their essence, not holding them close enough and left to their own devices, the might run amuck. Of course we are only talking grasses here , Empathic Ray.

Great Image Kathryn,the colour and the movement of the grass is super.

Kathryn: Thanks kindly, Vintage. I loved the color and those grasses too.

i love the onset of storms. the breeze turning into gusty winds. the movement of air through foliage. i love nature when she's unkempt, wild. i don't like fences but this one allows me freedom to escape. and i think that's what i'm doing as i lose myself in this moment. thanks Kathryn, for sharing.

did you feel that characteristic dip in the temperature when you took this? and did you smile ?

Kathryn: Terry, the onset of storms and the drop in both the temperature and the pressure, have made me feel as if i can fly. In fact, as cheesy as this may be, when i was a little girl, i used to tie a towel around my neck as a cape, so i'd be swept up and be able to fly.

This picture reminds me of it...i felt it then, standing on the tip top of that mountain with the wind on my face and the light and dark flirting with me daring me to fly.

You've flown before, haven't you, terry?

It looks as if it's going to be pretty dramatic Kathryn!

Kathryn: I am always pretty dramatic, Chris. And the weather was too

I like the layers

Kathryn: Thanks, Nig.

A perfect title and a simply gorgeous photograph.

The tall grass swaying in the breeze is wonderful.

Kathryn: Thanks so much, Paul. A little Utopia up there on the top of the mountain

I like this I wonder if its by the sea, it has that feel about it.

Kathryn: Not by the sea, although I am a lover of the sea. This is in Germany, in the Harz Mountains on the Brocken Mountain. It feels like you can see the entire world from the Brocken.

A well composed pic with wonderful gentle, natural colours of different shades! Interesting is the crossing of lines which are leading to different directions (the reedgrasses upwards to the left side, the wooden railing downstairs to the right one). In this way we can 'feel' a kind of storm is/will be rising and the sky is in still restraint uproar as the nuances of blue might indicate.
In former times people saw/felt in those nature phenomena the arrival/epiphany of a godness, the nature was in uproar and in growing movements till a heavy storm or a thunderstorm or a wild shower broke out and darkness spread out...

Kathryn: Philine, i am reading your words and am firstly flattered at the attention you've given to the details of the photograph, but even more so, I am stunned at your exquisite use of the English language to express such a complexity of thoughts.

The arrival of a goddess, yes, I felt that anticipation of something beautiful and powerful too!

I love the colours and the rustic fence, the wind in the grasses...
You have become a lovely source of changing desktop wallpapers for me, you and your camera are doing a great job in making my day a little bit more beautiful, Kathryn, thanks!
Best wishes, Thomas.

Kathryn: Thomas, there you are again. I have missed our talks! Let's get caught up soon?

Mother Nature dishes us up some of the most beautiful scenes, doesn't she? I suspect the trick is having the time and the inclination to slow down ourselves in this busy world and appreciate them.

If you want the originals for your desktop, I'd be happy to share. Let's consider it my duty in making your day beautiful just as you have made mine with your message.

Liebe Grüße,
--Kathryn

Late catching up, as is usual, so much has already been said. Can I just add that I agree with everyone - this is a beautiful photograph. (:o)