This weeks Challenge
”Roads, Trails and Paths”
My Photos number a few more than usual. I put the smaller images on my entry to allow the page to load. You should be able to bring them up larger by clicking on the image of interest.
I picked a single route to take on this terrific subject. I concentrated on the word “path”, going with some of the oldest paths in existence. The paths I have photographed date back hundreds of thousands of years
This image probably looks like any path anywhere in the world. This particular path leads to a very old path in Remington, Ohio. You can see a bit of it near the bottom right hand corner of the photo.
Here the brush has opened up to give us a better peek at what we couldn’t see in the above photo, the Little Miami River (Remington, Ohio).
The Little Miami (Loveland, Ohio) is only a tiny part of the river system in the United States which numbers over 800 rivers, great and small that criss-cross the country.
These rivers are fed by rivulets and creeks that number in the hundreds of thousands that follow paths ages old, like this stormy run (Indian Hill, Ohio) only a few miles from our home.
And this creek in one of our Hamilton County parks, Sharon Woods.
And this frozen Winter run, not 100 feet from my front door.
All of these water flows move towards greater rivers (the Ohio River in Ashland, Kentucky)
(the bend in the Ohio River, Cincinnati, Ohio) which follow their paths
to even greater rivers (the Mississippi River, Dubuque, Iowa).
Some rivers spill into lakes like Lake Michigan (photographed from the Chicago shore) and
they all spill into one of the greater oceans like the Atlantic seen here, photographed from Virginia beach. There are great waters, like the beautiful Pacific or the Gulf of Mexico or beautiful oceans, lakes and rivers on the shores of the beautiful countries where you live.
Waters from all over the world churn and run, intermixing with water from the balance of the world, uniting us for the best or the worst, whatever it is we choose or allow. Billions of years to create the paths the waters have followed (read here) and in barely over 200 years technology, created by man, has stripped them of their dignity. I can’t help but think of what our photographs will become if natures guidelines are continually swept to the side of unimportant, as they have been for much too long.
A personal testimony to this sad state of affairs is in the trash I have picked up on all shores everywhere I have had the privilege to visit and the sickening sudsy float on the waves that crash on the beaches and the grime my feet have testily had to touch in the sands, when walking bare. I have to wonder just why it has come to the current state of affairs. Are we so unfeeling of the future that our personal paths have wandered so far from a better course?
Keep on taking your photos, thanks for your comments and
have a good week,
This image probably looks like any path anywhere in the world. This particular path leads to a very old path in Remington, Ohio. You can see a bit of it near the bottom right hand corner of the photo.
Here the brush has opened up to give us a better peek at what we couldn’t see in the above photo, the Little Miami River (Remington, Ohio).
The Little Miami (Loveland, Ohio) is only a tiny part of the river system in the United States which numbers over 800 rivers, great and small that criss-cross the country.
These rivers are fed by rivulets and creeks that number in the hundreds of thousands that follow paths ages old, like this stormy run (Indian Hill, Ohio) only a few miles from our home.
And this creek in one of our Hamilton County parks, Sharon Woods.
And this frozen Winter run, not 100 feet from my front door.
All of these water flows move towards greater rivers (the Ohio River in Ashland, Kentucky)
(the bend in the Ohio River, Cincinnati, Ohio) which follow their paths
Some rivers spill into lakes like Lake Michigan (photographed from the Chicago shore) and
they all spill into one of the greater oceans like the Atlantic seen here, photographed from Virginia beach. There are great waters, like the beautiful Pacific or the Gulf of Mexico or beautiful oceans, lakes and rivers on the shores of the beautiful countries where you live.Waters from all over the world churn and run, intermixing with water from the balance of the world, uniting us for the best or the worst, whatever it is we choose or allow. Billions of years to create the paths the waters have followed (read here) and in barely over 200 years technology, created by man, has stripped them of their dignity. I can’t help but think of what our photographs will become if natures guidelines are continually swept to the side of unimportant, as they have been for much too long.A personal testimony to this sad state of affairs is in the trash I have picked up on all shores everywhere I have had the privilege to visit and the sickening sudsy float on the waves that crash on the beaches and the grime my feet have testily had to touch in the sands, when walking bare. I have to wonder just why it has come to the current state of affairs. Are we so unfeeling of the future that our personal paths have wandered so far from a better course?Keep on taking your photos, thanks for your comments andhave a good week,
Comments (13)
Those are very nice!!
Let’s go to the beach!!! lol
Very nice indeedy! I took some and hope to get them up before the weeks over dang it! Too much on my plate this week. What’s the words: “So many photo’s. too little time?” hehehe@guestbrief - Yea beach!
I always enjoy my visit here!
These are so beautiful. Judi
I think you have given me a nice education about the water ways of the United States. I guess in the Pioneer days the major form of transport was Boat and Horse, and it would seem that most paths followed the rivers. Lovely photos as usual. —Tim
Hard to pick a best one Becca – they are all very good pics.
will have to get out wqith my camera—-Ken
Funny, you were in my neck of the “woods.” Remember when I was living the Hague (summer 2007)? I like your take on Americana.
This is good lesson of geography and history , Becca , illustrated by very beautiful photos .
From the rill , the brook to the ocean or lake via majestic river . I have been impressed by the Mississipi .
I am glad you have posted , Becca.
Love
Michel
Wonderful photos, as usual.
Those are fantastic! I like the 2nd, 3rd & 5th ones the best, but they are all very nice indeed!
hahah, immediately after I glanced at the first photos I thought “oh, looks like Ohio”…and i was right! I live in a town on the Great Miami River.
Btw, I was also amused because I got a random text from a girl named Becca earlier and don’t doubt the power of coincidences…so I wondered if 1.) you are 20 and 2.) you cook tuna. lol.
A very poignant post well illustrated – I do wonder what our children’s children will inherit. I fear that even if we had a global change now, it’s too late to prevent much of the damage. The trouble is, that it’s not down to the individual (though commendable, on such a scale, individual effort is almost futile). Governments must instigate and insist on change and they have too much to lose to impose anything like the radical change that is needed.
@rojobe - Per your comment on my entry for WakeUpLaughings Challenge, “Roads, Trails and Paths” I agree, government has to make the changes and they must be global and, I believe it all boils down to money/greed. There is too much to lose when it comes to money and there are those in charge who seem to care less if the world survives for the future, only how comfortable they themselves are at the moment. Lack of consideration for the other man, the poorer man, the less fortunate man is evident in all the histories of the world from as far back as we are aware of history. I think it is the nature of the beast and what a sad nature it is.
Becca