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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 827375" data-attributes="member: 53455">The Devil’s Bridge over the Couze RiverDeep into the Auvergne (central France) lies the quiet valley of Rentières, in which runs the River Couze. Not far from the village of Ardes, where part of my family comes from (yes, Auvergne is also a Celtic country!), there is this very strange little bridge that allows passage over the Couze... if you dare use it, that is!It is Mediæval but was obviously restored several times since the Middle Ages, and the success of its graceful but very daring arch was of course attributed to Lucifer... After all, his name means “the Bringer of Light” (i.e., of knowledge), and in the Middle Ages, any never-seen-before technical prowess tended to be attributed to some conspiracy with the Devil...I like to think that this was one of my dear Mom’s favorite places when she was a very young child, and that is why I dispersed half of her ashes there in the river, on that sad and gray January afternoon of 2016, after she passed away at age 96.Coincidentally, and just a few days before, I had gone precisely there to shoot some pictures. Was it a premonition that I, at the time, failed to recognize? What really did draw me there that day? Who knows how Fate works in such mysterious ways?Nikon D810, Nikkor 24mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]413349[/ATTACH]</blockquote>