I’ve posted this pic, not because it’s specially good (it’s not) but because it made me smile. Solitude it is, taken at dawn this morning down on the quays at Bordeaux, with a thick mist on the Garonne. Calm and peaceful. Except, if you look in the middle of the bank of mist, you can see the Horned One making its way up from the sea…
Actually, the horns are all that you can make out of the towers at either side of the new Chaban-Delmas bridge.
Visit Hugh’s blog for some much better, proper photos of solitude.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
It looks so calm and peaceful, and I love the pinkish, purply hues.
The dawn light on a misty river is beautiful 🙂
I can see the horns and they do look very mysterious. Almost as if a dragon is coming out of the mist.
You say it’s not a particularly good photo, Jane, but I think it’s a lovely shot. With nobody about it certainly does say solitude.
Thanks for joining in with the challenge.
It’s solitude for the centre of a largish city. As good as it gets anyway. Apart from Behemoth, of course 🙂
Mystery on the horizon.
Looming.
Only you, Jane, can take a placid photo like that and turn it into something sinister. That is why I like you. 😉
I’ll let you into a secret, Margaret. It was my husband who took this photo because of the “Horned One” where the bridge usually is. I married a kindred spirit 🙂 You’d like him too.
I bet I would, Jane. 🙂
🙂
Is that what the new bridge is called? Seems an unwelcome nickname. . As often – the Devils bridge..
As far as I know, it’s only ever called ‘le nouveau’. Nobody even gives it is proper name. We may be the only people to have cracked its true identity 🙂
ps Maybe it’s your nickname for the bridge?.. and I misunderstood?
I think it is a pretty exclusive nickname, yes 🙂
I think its a lovely photo! And what are you people doing up at dawn? You should be sleeping, like the rest of us. I really cannot do early mornings. Anything before 8am is too early, which means every morning for the past 15 years AK (after kids).
They start school here at 8am. Criminal, isn’t it?
Very good picture. I like the perspective and your description.
Thanks! It’s hard to take a bad picture of the Garonne. But not impossible…
Very serene. xx Rowena
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