Now it’s just a peaceful place for anybody, who likes to rest under the willow tree.
Only the older ones still remember the day, when the water arrived.
People had fought so hard, but in the end, they had lost the war against the element many years ago.
Nature had decided it was the right place for a pond and had buried everything underneath.
Today, nobody can see what stays hidden below and only time will tell, if the past will ever show itself to the present.
Perhaps one day it will all dry out.
Calm waters can be deceiving.
(Word Count: 100)
This is my post for this weeks 100-word photo challenge.
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I read it as an analogy for people. We never know what lies beneath.
Smart man 🙂
Nature and the elements should never be underestimated. I really enjoyed this.
Thank you!
Nice piece, Bridgit. There’s a saying that ‘still waters run deep’. It plays in nicely to your ‘calm waters can be deceiving’. Indeed they can!!
… and just to continue on your conversation with Diana, YES! You are a writer 🙂
Believe it or not, I am actually not always a blabber mouth. I am one of the still waters, who run deep (occasionally).
As for being a writer. Hmmm
Calm waters can be deceiving, indeed! I like your story, I like your name -nonsmokingladybut and the happy quitter.
Lily
Thank you Lily. I started blogging when I quit smoking, that’s why I decided to call myself “The Happy Quitter.”
Nice to meet you,
Bridget
Nice one, I like “Nature had decided…” We’re not really in control, are we?
We think we are, but we are not.
Dear Bridget,
Eventually the elements will win, won’t they? There are a few areas in Kansas City that repeatedly flood. Each time the city rebuilds. I wonder if they’ll ever surrender to the elements. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle.
What lies beneath….. i wonder
An excellent analogy
Thank you Derrick
I liked the idea of ‘nature deciding’. There’s an inevitability about it. Good one.
Thank you Sandra. I was watching the forecast about the hurricane and couldn’t help but thinking about natures way of putting us in our place.
Intriguing. Some dark secret under there? Nice mystery in this.
It’s such a challenge for me. Every Wednesday I wonder if I will come up with another idea and then, when I look at a new photography, that’s when the brain and the fingers on the keyboard start to work together.
What doesn’t make any sense, because I am NOT a writer.
If you write, you’re a writer. I love photo prompts and that weird feeling of the story forming and taking over. It’s great fun. 🙂
You can just wonder…. calm water can hide secrets for sure…
Nice take on the prompt.
Oh so menacing… what does lie beneath? Great to leave us hanging!
Probably just signs of the war, when they tried to stop the water. Or perhaps the an old garden, or maybe a cemetery. Oh my, now my imagination is going wild (again).