This week's prompt is a 'Couple Crossing a River' with a boulder apparently threatening the pair's success.
It's a widely held belief that you cannot cross running water without there being consequences.
If I had to cross the river at Bristol I'd definitely use the suspension bridge.
This pup has been cast adrift to make the crossing on his own.
We have just left him back in Michigan where he lives next to that lake. Of course we have to take a plane back across the pond. But first we have to decide whose in charge.
Now if you doubt that this tale is so,
I met that spook just a year ago,
Now I didn't stop for a second look,
But I made for the the bridge that spans the brook,
Cause once you cross the bridge my friends
The ghost is through, his power ends.
If I had to cross the river at Bristol I'd definitely use the suspension bridge.
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| Clifton Suspension Bride |
The Avon is a long way down even from the road that skirts it.
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| Looking down from the bridge |
Daphne du Maurier first saw Cornwall's River Fowey at the age of 19 when their hire car deposited her, her mother and sisters at the foot of the hill at Bodinnick by the slipway for the ferry to Fowey.
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The ferry slipway is at the centre left edge of the photo above. The house with the blue door is the house the du Mauriers were to buy and rename Ferryside and were Daphne was to write 'The Loving Spirit', the first of her novels.
I'm not a lover of ferries as the only Channel crossing I ever took (in 1959) was horrific even before we had left Calais.
The brook that our sons were threatening to jump looked much more friendly in the 1960s'.
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| Andrew & Adrian |
The rocks did not look big enough to be stepping stones.
However some do not need any help to cross.
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| Egret in the Fowey Estuary |
Other damsels chose to rest on reeds beside a lake.
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| Bluet Damselflies |
Some just pause to drink at the water's edge with no thought of crossing.
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| Fawn at lakeside |
But are those rocks intimidating her.
This pup has been cast adrift to make the crossing on his own.
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| Scout getting ready to paddle with his stick |
Now grown up, he would just jump in and swim across.
We have just left him back in Michigan where he lives next to that lake. Of course we have to take a plane back across the pond. But first we have to decide whose in charge.
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| In the Airbus Cockpit (2013) |
Do we push or pull?
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Well we crossed safely again this year and now it's time for you to cross over to see what other watery treats are on offer at Sepia-Saturday-254.
