I did have fun with the current Daily Post Photo Challenge theme of Signs:
The Biblical sign – and also a sign pointing to a pot of gold to be found at the foot – but you’d have to swim for it! Taken yesterday from our home soon no-longer-to-be.
The empty parking lot shows that the doctor is ‘R Way’ … and visible just across the way was …
… this sign, showing that the ‘away’ was away!
(Well, I thought it was funny!)
The above contrivance would be rather incomprehensible if it weren’t for this sign on the other side …
… which shows how sugar would suffer a crushing defeat in years gone by. This is the site of the historic Compensation Sugar Mill on the North Coast of KwaZulu Natal.
© Colonialist October 2014 (WordPress)
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Beautiful
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That double rainbow is phenomenal! And the movement in the waves. A genius photo 🙂 (if such a thing exists).
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Patience and luck!
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Great signs! I once saw a sign for “Frozen hot chocolate”!
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The mind boggles! Mind you, I have heard of deep fried ice cream, but I have no idea how that works.
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I don’t understand it either. We should use our brains for good, not frying ice cream or freezing hot chocolate!
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Frozen hot dogs will be next, or hot sodas!
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🙂
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what a patient person you must be to wait for a rainbow…..lovely shots of cane sugar machinery..well you live and learn something new everyday
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I nearly missed it by being IMpatient – it went away a couple of times and so did I, but then the kids called me back saying it had reappeared. The last time it did that was the best.
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What a lovely double rainbow!
I’ve only seen 3 of those in my life!
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We have been lucky, with a situation where they seem to occur at least a few times every year.
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I think you’re going to miss that house…
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Love the Doctor and headache signs!
At first I thought that the mill was a braai/BBQ area 😉
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now dats a hard pot of gold to get to 🙂
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Unless you happen to be a goldfish! 🙂
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That double rainbow, seems to me, to be a goodbye blessing upon you and this place you have loved.
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Lovely thought. Now we need another one on the substitute(s).
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“Crushing defeat…” Ha! I get it! 🙂
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Great rainbow pic, Col. The sugar can crusher looks very complicated. 🙂
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I have had many opportunities for such pictures from the same place, but I think that this is indeed one of the best ever.
The crusher is simple, actually. Put something between two rollers and it’ll go squish.
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I heard it’s no longer a pot of gold; now it’s bitcoins.
. . . interesting machine . . . looks a lot like old-time clothes wringers.
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Could well be!
It works on exactly the same principle!
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I’ve never had the chance to see a double rainbow in real life. It looks amazing in photos so I can just imagine what it’s like when you see the real thing
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It gives an extra bonus seeing it over the sea like this, where the full expanse is visible.
The real thing is quite breathtaking, with the whole expanses of the twinned semicircles.
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Nice.
But “soon no-longer-to-be home”?
Are you moving out of paradise?
😦
(A concerned Brian)
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Sadly, ‘Paradise Lost’ does about sum it up. We could no longer afford it and have had to sell and downscale.
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Hi Leslie. Ever so sorry to hear that. I was brought up by te african sea (West side) more or less the age of your granddaughter (s?). Pure magic. Most “inlanders” think only “beach” when they rush to the shores. But the important thing is the Sea. How it rumbles you to sleep at night. How it plays with the light. Or with you and tosses you back on the sand. Is your new house inland? At least close to the sound of waves? 🙂
Take care my friend.
Brian
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At least we are still within sight, if not immediate reach.
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Beauty (and love?) lies in the eye of the beholder.
Thus within sight is still good.
🙂
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Love the double rainbow Col, nice pic. It’s an interesting challenge, can’t think of anything sufficiently lateral right now, which was I liked your first pic, nice thinking.
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I can’t take too much credit for the thinking, actually. The point is that after taking that shot I was determined to fit it into the Challenge if at all possible – and the theme, when I saw it, was a gift!
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Sometimes it happens, nice when it does. I liked it.
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I knew what that was! When I was very small and they grew sugar cane in East TX, my dad would take us in the fall to the syrup mill. It had the oddest sweet-sour smell and was so busy, dark, and hot. But we always bought a couple of silver cans of Ribbon Cane syrup. Can’t find it anymore.
Seen 2 double rainbows this year (over the lake) pretty unusual
That’s a beautiful picture and very funny signs
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I think very few people will have recognised that machinery without the sign!
It was lucky that I was persistent with that rainbow, It came and went for some time, far more feebly, while I took picture after picture, and I was just about to give up when that particularly vivid configuration appeared for a few seconds.
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