Weekly Photo Challenge: FORWARD / Travel Theme: BRIDGES

                             “I demolish my bridges behind me.                                        Then there is no choice but forward. “

Fridtjorf Nansen

SLEEPING BEAR DUNES, MICHIGAN

Although it’s rare for me to do two posts in one week (can you tell it’s a rainy week here on Kiawah??), I couldn’t resist this week’s Photo Challenge  “Forward”, and the complimentary  Travel Theme “Bridges” from Ailsa of “Where’s My Backpack”.

Bridges, which are beautifully photogenic, lead us forward to new places and carry us metaphorically between the phases of our lives.   They can be massive:

CHAIN BRIDGE, BUDAPEST

or small:

SUNSET, KIAWAH ISLAND

“The farther backward you look, the farther forward you can see.”

Winston Churchill

They can carry Bobs:

MAX 2 PERSONS, PATAGONIA

or Bobcats

CROSSING LANE, KIAWAH

“Have Faith !   Go Forward !”

Thomas Edison

Can be lit by the sun:

PASTORAL SCENE – BEND, OREGON

Or by the moon:

MOONLIT, MENDOCINO CA

In the country:

OVER THE RIVER, CHILE

Or in the city.

BROOKLYN BRIDGE, NYC

Bruce Jackson said “Bridges are frames for looking at the world around us.”  Wherever they are and whatever they look like, they take us to places new and old, physical and emotional, backward and forward.  It is ours to decide which way we will go.

For more entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge, click here .  For more of Ailsa’s Travel Theme posts, look here.

 

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