From Lucy - Steps at Castle Cove - For My World Tuesday
I like the way the title 'My World Tuesday' is ambiguous because it reflects the way our inner and outer realities often overlap.
These wooden steps are at Castle Cove, Dorset in England. They link a sandy beach with a wooded cliff top. There used to be a path along the cliff but landslips have taken it away.
Whichever direction one walks on these steps - whether up or down - one feels one is setting off for somewhere exotic and exciting. However many times I go up them (or down) I feel as if I am entering a new world; a world of fiction and adventure. And this is despite the fact that nothing ever happens there. I walk up. I walk down. That's it. No change. No adventure. Just up and down-ness. But I always feel as if . . . .
Sometimes I wonder if the steps are getting a bit rickety - whether I might arrive one day only to find they have gone.
Just like life really.
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21 comments:
Yes, up and down. I know what you mean.
Sydney - City and Suburbs
I do relate -- I have a place like this, too! Great shot, does stir the imagination!
Enjoy!
Sylvia
Looks like a mysterious place to get some exercise. Nice capture and post.
Love that photo, and would love to find out where those steps lead in either direction. Thanks for sharing.
They do have the feel of the wardrobe with the old fur coats in it. Who knows, one day you may end up in a parallel universe.
Nice photo. LOL, I shouldn't worry about them being gone when you arrive, only about them going with you on them! :)
What a lovely shot!
Hello Jim.
I'm not thinking of up and down in a happy / sad, things going fine then with problems kind of way . . . more of the ordinary, rocking, mundane-ness of life . . . but which is then spiced with the idea that adventure is just around the corner.
Sylvia - what is 'your place' like? . . . the one which is like the steps in my photo?
Gaelyn - I like your suggestion that the wooden steps would be a mysterious place to get some exercise. The flight is even longer than is evident in the picture - so perhaps I should set out for it each day as a way of getting fit.
Denise - Perhaps I will go back one day and take a photo in each direction. Then you will know!
Arija - I really like the idea of comparing these steps with 'The Wardrobe'. I shall never walk up or down again them without bearing all your comments in mind. They will never be the same from now on. They have been transformed!
Monica - your suggestion will be one of the things I will think of when I walk down these stairs in the future. I often wonder how long they will last and the idea will be even closer to the front of my mind from now on. If I vanish some time from the bloggersphere . . . perhaps you will guess what has happened!
Thanks Esther Garvi. I'm glad you like the photo of the wooden steps.
Well, if there was no adventure yet then there will most probably be one at some point!
Very nice picture.
Marvelous shot.
Some places have a charm of its own,just being there pleases the inner self. Great mood described. :)
Bim - hello.
Maybe you are right and an adventure will turn up.
I like the idea of a 'Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' style one, as Arija suggests.
On the other hand, the coast round here is jsut a bit west of where the 'Famous Five' stories were set. Maybe something like that would be safer!
James and Rajesh.
Glad you like the photo of the steps.
Hello Indrani.
You too are right. An adventure isn't essential. Just being in a place like this is (almost!) enough in itself.
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