Labor Day found me on this lazy, Southern river that once hosted a group of Union soldiers who came ashore just a bit downstream from this shot. My point of view was from up high atop a sandy bank…
Their boats were too big to get this far up the narrowing river, so the brazen brave soldiers disembarked nearby and traipsed up these very shores and on to what would be the very last ground battle of the Civil War.
The only problem was these troops did not have the benefit of being texted or otherwise notified that General Lee had already surrendered at Appomattox in Virginia a day or so before. (Whoops!)
This POV was taken very early in the morning at the same spot, different camera angle, in the hushed dawn before the cypress swimming hole awoke to the familiar parade of kayakers and splashing children:
From hosting warriors once upon a bloody time to hosting my child’s little play-boat on a rhythmic-cicada-chirping summer day…
God bless this scenic river and all places of history from which the end of battles and the beginning of peace arises.
And happy Point of View, to you!
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Love your commentary on this one – nicely done!
Thanks, Ms. Tina. It’s hard not to throw in some of the history along with a picture! I really appreciated your post on the Great Wall, peppered with both history and your perspective from your trip.
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What are you crazy??? What about the snakes? And the alligators? And the leeches? Oh, to be a kid again….Sorry…you and everybody else in WP has dropped out of my email notifications. I’ve lost touch with the world! …PS Hope you are doing fine…
Fine, yes. Crazy, hope not! We had more problems with the mosquitoes which were so abundant, I began to wonder if that was the real reason the soldiers got out of their boats and away from that river as fast as they could. We’ve learned to live with the snakes, alligators and other critters around here, and I daresay they’ve learned to live with us. I should have mentioned in the post this is one of the rivers the manatees come up to feed in, in the winter. Hope all is well with you, too…
~~ssm
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Cool pictures and a great way to remember the soldiers and what they went through!
Thanks, Java Girl!
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Ethereal! Kudos~
Thank you, Ms. Cindy – it was breathtaking at that hour.
~~ssm
Lovely choices for POV challenge. If you hadn’t clarified, I would still be thinking you’d climbed that tall tree in the first picture to get such a shot. Whew. You might have fallen and broken both arms and legs. You can’t type from inside a body cast… 🙂
You’ve got me laughing again, Ms. Tess! All I could picture was my child on that long rope swing winding up in a body cast should he have had a cypress collision. But all was well. I survived that, as well as my eldest child getting behind the wheel of a car today for the first time. Bundle of nerves, I tell you! =:O
*Grins*
I remember the first-day-behind-the-wheel days. I’m surprised I lived through THAT and the birthing of two grandbabies.
Bless you, Ms. Tess! I relegated the task to my husband, I was such a bundle of nerves. The behind-the-wheel task, that is, not the birthing 😀
ha-ha-ha.
;-D
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It seems apropos that the cicadas are singing their song in Iowa as I read your blog. From forest fires to battlefields, it is such a blessing to see new growth emerge and the reclamation of God’s creation for peaceful purposes. Thanks for your POV!
You’re very welcome, Pastor Spindler. The summer song of the cicadas gives me much comfort, as does God’s promises of new peace. He never leaves anything left undone. Thank you for your thoughtful insight.
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