Lost Worlds #09293

The Story

Here are two rows of colorful gazing balls lined up in the summer sunshine. They’re reflecting everything around…the sky above in multiple hues and all the surroundings of a roadside country market that sold all manner of kitsch to people driving by. Gazing balls may be low-brow, but I think they’re rather interesting and fun. They give a new colorful round twist to the world wherever they are planted. They are also patently a summer thing which is why they ended up in the Summer category of this website.

I enjoy color immensely and the strongly saturated ones shown here definitely suit me sometimes. I looked into each one of the gazing balls to simply take in the world in a different way enhanced by a single color. Interesting! I was delighted as a child would have been.

This photograph also serves as an impromptu summer self-portrait…notice the guy with a camera reflected in the blue-green ball at the bottom. How nice to be preserved in such a satisfying shade is what I say.

Location: Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Picture and story © Andrew Dierks