The One Single Impression prompt this week is walls. My photos were taken at Fort Popham in Phippsburg, Maine. These days, it is a very tranquil place to visit, guarding only the beach and lots of wildflowers.
granite walls
June 15, 2009 by Sandy
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Beautiful photo and you haiku shows how nature can begin to right the wrongs.
lovely expression on how life changes
and changes some more.
Beauty prevails. How wonderful.
Wars come and go – nature is eternal.
Sandy, I’m supposing that the pretty rose you found is an antique rose. It should be a favorite of rose rustlers there if legal to cut from the park.
] had a nice summer home there for us to see).
We very likely visited there when we drove south down the coast until after Kennebunkport, Maine (some prominent Texans [
That rose plant has outlasted many wars. I suppose a Union soldier. 1862 was about the time my grandfather and grandmother (Fletcher and Cram) left Searsmont and Montville (Maine) for Nebraska. I would like to think they planted it.
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How beautiful!
Would that all our battlements were overgrown with roses!
terrific . .
beautiful wall and words!
how irrepressible, the longing for life
Absolutely beautiful; both poem and pictures! Thanks~
Here in Canada we call these wild roses (the provincial flower of Alberta). This is a wonderful photo Sandy and your words speak volumes. Thoughts to ponder…
A perfect post for this prompt, Sandy. I want that top photo! I love it.
You are something!
This is lovely…speaking to the impermance of what was once both feared and bolstered.
Here’s to rose-power! Many thanks–
Note, in small print–I think the ‘it’s’ in your last line should read ‘its’, but it could mean ‘it is war long over’?