Yesterday I was doing some work on my forum, including setting up our discussion topic for the week (it's a medical support forum, but we have a debating area where we debate current issues, partly as a break from endless discussions about how ill everyone's feeling). It's a couple of days early - usually I change the topic on a Saturday or a Sunday, but as I've another site I need to be working on this weekend, I wanted to get all my forum maintenance out of the way so I've got a clear weekend.
This week's topic is knife-crime. It's been a particular issue here in the UK, especially in London with something like 20 young people killed in knife attacks that have hit the news this year already. I was looking around on the stock.xchng photography site for some photos to illustrate the topic with - like here I use the news board on the front page to highlight particular threads, and I wanted some pictures to do a bit of a montage with.
This was what I eventually came up with:
(http://www.neonblueweb.co.uk/images/knifecrime_montage.jpg)
...but while I was searching, alsorts of photos were coming up in the search results that weren't really related to what I wanted at all.
As soon as I saw this one though, it struck a chord, and I imagined Ennis visiting Jack's grave at Lightning Flat. I'd been busy working on the forum all day, and I'd not particularly thought about Brokeback, but after I saw this photo I kept going back to it again and again and the scene where Ennis phones Lureen and then the flashback kept playing over and over in my head...
It's called "When a cowboy dies"....
(http://www.neonblueweb.co.uk/images/when_a_cowboy_dies.jpg)
When a cowboy dies ~ (c) eqphotolog | stock.xchng (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/523673)
Jack, I swear...