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It was strange to come across this sign so soon after it was on Explore. I had never seen it in the Highway Code and looking at it again I was baffled as to its meaning. After all it is in a remote spot high in the mountain reached only by a steep and windy single track road that ends in a dead end at the dam. This road has a well maintained and locked gate a mile or two back down the road preventing access to unauthorised vehicles. And then there is a second very well maintained and locked gate making doubly sure vehicles do not go along the dam wall.
So why have a sign warning of vehicles on the dam wall? This isn't a layby off the A34 where Polish and Romanian express international delivery drivers park up waiting for the next load. This is a remote location in the mountain. To me, with my farming pedigree, the sign might jokily be interpreted as a warning to Welsh sheep farmers, watch out for runaway trucks crashing through your sheep dip.
But I was concerned to be told the genuine reason for the sign by a flickr contact. Apparently back in Victorian times, one night a train stopped on a viaduct. Some passengers thought they had stopped at a station, opened the doors and stepped out into the dark expecting the platform to be beneath their feet. Instead they fell to their deaths over the side of the viaduct.
And apparently that is the reason for the sign. Just in case a truck does go through one locked gate, and then the other, at night time in the dark and then stops on the dam wall instead of at either end where there is room to park, and then someone leaps out of the cab. But that won't be a problem if they park in the hand railed area as instructed.
But really if such a sign was only ever needed in the dark, why isn't it illuminated?
AAWeekly: Outdoor Signs
Came across this mirrored sign on the street outside a shop... and just had to jump inside.. the sign not the shop.,
This giant peace sign in tiny lights appeared on the front of a house in my neighborhood shortly after the Iraq war began.
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much better large size and on black - molto meglio in grande e su sfondo nero
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This shot is the continuing of yesterday’s one.
I will try to use less my car…
A little one, but that’s a start!
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Questo scatto è in continuità con quello di ieri.
La mia intenzione è quella di provare ad usare meno la mia auto…
E’ pur sempre un inizio!
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Kingsburg, Ca.
Okay, if you're not in the mood for snark, move along. These signs have been making their appearance around town. I've seen similar messages on bumper stickers previously. That goes along with all the other crapola bumper sticker slogans such as, "If you can read this, thank a teacher," and so many other self-serving exclamations made on all manner of media. The implications are that they are doing this as a favor to us, rather than as a means of making money. The idiocy of this should be obvious. Why not "If you have a bank account, thank a banker?" Or what about, "If you haven't been arrested for tax evasion, thank a CPA?" It goes on and on. Extended out to it's logical conclusion, we must all get bumper stickers to exclaim our virtue and reason for existing on the planet. How about, "If you're a cop, thank us criminals?" "If you're toilet flushes, thank your plumber."
I mean, really. how dumb are we?
hair salon best known for it's awesome awesome sign.
It should be noted that I photoshoped part of a billboard out of the shot because it was too distracting.
we had some nice days and then a whole bunch of cloudy rainy days. and then this. the beginning signs of spring.
light and shadows and Color. it was needed.
agfa ultra 50 - expired 6/2002
I so should have taken this sighting of a buzzard high up in a dead tree at the beginning of the trail as a sign and not walked down it a week ago today. But it was called the Woodland Trail with a promise of an overlook where we Might see ponies and I thought... Woodland would indicate a nice shady walk under thick full trees. Right? Wrong! The temps in the early morning were as cool as they would be all day (upper 80's). Out in the bright, HOT sun we trudged along. I tried to pretend I wasn't melting. I haven't done all that much walking since the hip replacement either. Hot sun and Mosquitos! I was pretty sure they had plans to carry me off. We had gone about a half a mile in these conditions when we met a bicyclist coming toward us so we asked how much further and she said... "Oh just a little ways". Well a little ways to someone on a bike and a little ways to someone walking can be two very different things indeed! I went around the next curve and saw no end insight. I just stopped in the middle of the oven baking road and looked at Anita and said.... "That's it. I'm done! no pony or bird is worth this torture!" at which point about 20 mosquitoes landed on each bare leg and began feasting. If I could have run I would have! Eventually I was able to drag myself back all the while keeping Anita in laughter with my comments about sweating and heat and how we were all going to die out there in the wilderness. Happily I Did survive it all and we were able to go look for the ponies elsewhere having never seen one on this trail and no birds either except one dove and one cowbird! Well, it's cooler today and we are off adventuring! Have a wonderful, mosquito free day everyone! :)