RDP Saturday – BURBLE
Not only do I love the word “onomatopoeia,” I love what it means. It’s a Latin root (I think, but it could also be Greek) meaning “a word that sounds like what it means.
Nothing says burble like burbling.
Recently, we’ve been spending a fair bit of time around waterways. What else is there to do in this river valley?
I thought about using pictures from Manchaug, but that’s more rushing than burbling. It is too high a drop to burble.
I did find some excellent burbling where the river and the canal separate. It’s a unique place, too — an area where the river widened. They put in a flow area so the river runs off to the right and does river things. Meanwhile, the straight flat canal goes through a set of large locks, then runs straight on toward Rhode Island. This has been an unusually rainy summer, so the water was burbling happily into the river, still leaving more than enough water for the canal.
The long walkway was originally where the horses plodded pulling the barges down the canal. Now, they have become places to walk with dogs and kids and cameras. The picture of the small bridge taken at River Bend is the same bridge you can see in the distance from the start of the canal.
River Bend and the Canal are just about 1/2 a mile distant from one another.
Which means that River Bend is really on the Canal rather than the river, though the two rejoin a little further down the way, at West River. All of these are very loud burbles!
Categories: #BlackstoneRiver, #foliage, #Photography, canal, Daily Prompt, leafing
For years I truly believed that the tool the “ratchet” was named for its sound. !!
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Epiotome of burble!
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We are a very burbling valley.
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haha
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I think you did ‘burbling’ proud here. Lovely shots with almost sound effects 🙂
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I can actually record sound effects with this camera except I haven’t figured out how. Maybe only in movie mode (which I never use). But that would have been nice 😀
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Lovely almost burbling scenery.
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River valley, lots of burbling!
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The photos also look like the word “burble”.
Leslie
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I have so many pictures of waterfalls and rivers, but most of the falls don’t “burble,” they just rush furiously over the dam.
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maybe a fast and furious burble?
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Maybe 🙂
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Beautiful photos. Like you, I love onamatopoeic words!
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Every language has a bunch of them and they are fun. You never have to look up the definition. It’s the SPELLING of onomatopoeia that gets me!
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It is a hard one to spell
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