WPC: Bridges

This week the Daily Post has asked us to conceptualize BRIDGES in our photography.

Here are my thoughts:

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Giant’s Causeway, Ireland, a fabled broken bridge between Ireland and Scotland

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 This is the Peace bridge in Derry, Northern Ireland

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On the banks of the Liffey

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New England, Snow Bridge over Brow’s Creek.

Here are some more bridges:

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge and Commercial Buildings

This week Cee has asked us to have PHOTOGRAPHIC FUN WITH COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS.

Will do Cee!

Here are my fun commercial buildings.

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They make chocolate here I think. Or maybe Collies. My sister would know which.

CABRAS CASTLE

Cabras Castle is actually a high end hotel. My daughter and I got to stay in the stables.

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It’s bigger on the inside than on the outside and the owner spends time.

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This was one of my favorite summer stops when I was a kid.

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Maple Syrup is big business in these parts

 

Staycation Pt. 4

Since I had little money to spend on extravagances this year I chose to take several free galavants through the countryside  for my vacation.

One of the places I hiked was Doane’s Falls in Royalston MA. Doanes is just at the outlet of the Miller’s River as it makes its way into the Tully Dam spillway.

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The first time I walked the falls was with my grandparents when I was a little boy. I don’t think I have walked all the way through to Tully since.

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Usually the head waters of the falls are broiling making it very dangerous to swim. Many a diver has jumped into the pool never to reemerge. With the little rainfall we have had the first falls are reduced to a mere trickle of their usual volume.

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The second falls

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The third falls

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Several boasters were taking advantage of the summer heat out on the Tully Dam waterway. It was a beautiful summer day and the whole hike took me about an hour and a half. When you visit bring plenty of water, bug spray and mind the poison ivy!