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Standing sentinel

Guardians watch travellers pass

Time has no meaning

All things must grow and crumble

Sharing the journey of life

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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in Glenlivet in the Highlands of Scotland, as we drove away from the weekend workshop to begin our own adventures. Dean had pointed the spot out to us as we passed, en route to Scalan from Drumin Castle and the Fairy Circle… and it was so beautiful I had to stop as we passed it once again. I would happily have spent a lot more time there.

Blairfindy castle © valenta at Geograph (CCL3)

There were originally three arches spanning the river, but one was lost in the great spate of 1829. The date of the building of the bridge is unknown, though it was probably designed  to serve Blairfindy Castle, the hunting seat of Castleton, some five hundred years ago.

I love that not only does the bridge still stand and serve, so many centuries later, but that nature is slowly making its beauty part of herself.

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Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week and to everyone who reblogged the prompt, round up and the individual resposes! A new prompt will be published later today. As always, I will reblog as many contributions as space and time allows as they come in… and all of them will be featured in the round-up next Thursday.

All the posts are listed below, so please click on the links below to read them and leave a comment for the author!

Pingbacks do not always come through… if you have written a post for this challenge and it does not appear in the round-up, please leave a link to your post in the comments and I will add it to the list.

An invitation to writephoto writers…

As there are usually too many contributions to reblog all of them every week, and so that we can get to know their writers, I would like to invite all writephoto writers to come and introduce themselves on the blog as my guest!  Click here for details.

Come and join in!

Many thanks to this week’s contributors:

Tori Herbert at Behind the Formatting

Leena at Soul Connection

Bobby Fairfield

Kerfe Roig at kblog

Maria at A Heart for Africa

Kyt Wright

Teresa Smeigh at Tessa can do it

Karen DeMers Dowdall at Once Upon a Time…

Lady Lee Manila

Suzanne at Being in Nature

Padre’s Ramblings

Fandango at This, That and the Other

Deborah’s Deliberations

Leena at Beckonlife

and a second poem from Leena

Kathy Lauren Miller at A View to a Book

Frank J. Tassone

The Bag Lady

Jen Goldie

Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper

Adele at Notes to Women

Willow Willers at willowdot21

Balroop Singh at Emotional Shadows

Jane Dougherty Writes

Deepa at Sync with Deep

Geoff Le Pard at Tangental

Ashwini Nawathe at Kaleidoscope of my Life

Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie

Kittysverses

The Dark Netizen

Na’ama Yehuda

Larry Trasciatti at Eastelmhurst.a.Go.Go

M. Brazfield at Words Less Spoken

Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway

Donna B. McNicol

Sadje at Keep it Alive

Di at pensitivity101

Deborah at A Wise Woman’s Journey

Jim Adams

Roberta Eaton at Roberta Writes

Reena Saxena

Anjali Sharma at Positive Side Of The Coin

Alethea Kehas at Not Tomatoes

Iain Kelly

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