Dozing Ducks, Bridges and An Aqueduct

Dozing while waiting for the ice to melt. I'd do the same if I had an inbuilt duvet.

Mallards on the the Lancaster Canal, just in shot on the barge is where they and I was, Carnforth. Setting off this morning for a stroll along the winding path, heading for Lancaster.

A blue, sunny and cloudless day. How still was the water, I may have overdone the number of bridge pictures taken today. Here is Barkers Bridge, its canal number, 126, if you were puttering down the canal by boat and wanted to check where you were.

Not a bridge but the Lune Aqueduct.  There is always something wonderful about aqueducts and this one is a beauty. Built from local stone, designed by John Rennie, it carries the canal 51 feet above the river and 664 feet from one side to the other. It is showing some wear in part but its been stood here since 1797

On the top the canal crosses the Lune, in the distance are the faint outline of the snow topped Yorkshire flat top hills but we are definitely in red rose Lancashire here.

ABC Wednesday - Aqua

Hodbarrow Lagoon

Aqua, life giving water.

Some of my favourite aquatic birds are swans, beautiful but sometimes with an uncertain temperament. As these signets are nearly full grown mother is happy to glide around, letting me take photographs and generally ignoring everyone, unless anyone happens to offer them tasty morsels that look more interesting than what is underwater, she would find that quite acceptable.

Barrow Park

These aquatic birds are very used to tasty morsels and there is usually a steady stream of people in the park offering snacks. The seagulls are floating in the background always on the alert for food but this was a very cold day so food bringers were thin on the ground.

Waterside Park

A pair of herring gulls who will not be offered any food, but they are casing the joint. This is some waste ground next to the sea channel and the building where I work. In the summer it will be full of nesting seagulls and a few oyster catchers. This rather divides the people in the building into those like me who find them fascinating and those that hate them with a vengeance, but the seagulls are an equal opportunity kind of bird and do not discriminate on whose car they leave their a mark.

Silecroft

Over 70% of earth's surface is covered with water and because of that someone once said that Earth is the wrong name for the planet and it really should be called Water.

The tide was on the ebb on Sunday afternoon, a still and sunny day, with only one lone tern,which did not want its photograph taking and flew away.

Humankind tries to manage and move water in various ways.

The Force Gill Aqueduct built by the Midland Railway (Settle to Carlisle line) in the 1800s to carry water from Force Gill into Dale Beck. This has in recent years been renovated by Railtrack, who thankfully did not go with their original plan of concreting the channel ,due to public pressure, so we still have the beautiful brickwork.
Almost aquamarine. An experimental scan of a film slide. Fuji film was always considered to be very good for colour and this is absolutely rich. The place is Lanty's Tarn near Ullswater in the Lake District. Lanty is a diminutive of Alexander and this was a pond he dammed a very long time ago which became a rather lovely tarn.

We have reached the next round of ABC Wednesday meme and we start on a new quest to find a word with the appropriate letter. Have a look at what words the other ABCers have come up with here