From the Pamlico River Trestle looking southeast down the Pamlico River, we view a desolate lack of water uncovering ancient Cypress stumps, with the water within the Pamlico River relegated to the channel: Above. From the Pamlico River Trestle, looking due east toward the Runyan Creek Bridge, we see a more placid scene during this Winter sunset: Below. photos by Stan Deatherage Click image to expand.
In these two worlds of images - some stark reality, others lovely at sunset - we might derive a message of measured hope. Many of these images of a better beauty have appeared in another series of pictorials on BCN, entitled
Across North Carolina.
From the Pamlico River Trestle, once again I offer you a juxtaposition of real and surreal moments at sunset: Above and then below. photos by Stan Deatherage Click image to expand.
While walking gingerly on the trestle, bracing myself for the 50 to 60 mile per hour gusts out of the northwest, I was amazed at who my neighbor would be on the old wooden and steel platform - a lone rider of sorts.
That lone rider also braved these terrible gusts, and on a bike riding to the end of the line; brave young man: Above. That same view from above, but from a another sunset in September: Below. photos by Stan Deatherage Click image to expand.
The lone rider, the fish traps found, the mystifying changes in scenery, and the images of other more peaceful moments along the Pamlico River were apparent to me when I made this post. I hope it shares a historical perspective of what was and what is, for this place will always be within a state of transition. We all are; everything always is. It is the one constant that we can depend on.
That lone rider braved the terrific gusts, found his way to safer ground, and I dream of better days by the Pamlico River Trestle. Anytime anyone rides their bike out on the trestle in high force winds, I am shooting that image: Above and then below. photos by Stan Deatherage Click image to expand.
Images of places in North Carolina, and in particular Downeast, taken by Stan Deatherage - currently for sale as high quality, framable prints - have been assembled here.
