I love the correlation of this blackberry bush intertwining its thorny stems with the sharp metal atop this wall. In bygone times, brambles were sometimes planted to deter intruders or keep cattle in their place. Barbed wire took over from more natural means of enforcing boundaries since its invention in the 19th century. It was, of course, famously deployed at the edge of no-man's land in the First World War.
Whether that razor-sharp steel in the photo is technically barbed wire or not is, I guess, debatable. It serves the same purpose. I pass the place in which I took that picture on my way home from the station, the last leg of my evening return from work. Now that tempting fruit is starting to ripen I've been reaching up to pluck ripe berries from the green shoots that are escaping their confinement - a sweet and refreshing taste of freedom.
My Pagan Eye posts show photos that I find interesting - seasonal images, pagan sites, events, or just pretty pictures. If you want to send me a photo for a Pagan Eye post, please email it to badwitch1234@gmail.com Let me know what the photo shows and whether you want your name mentioned or not. For copyright reasons, the photo must be one you have taken yourself.
Links and previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/08/blackberries-and-brambles.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/08/pagan-eye-blackberries-city-harvest.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/08/purple-splodges-lammas-baking-failure.html
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