Sunday, June 24, 2007

New Orleans Ferry 3

It's called a "bollard"--that silver object in the lower right-hand corner of the original photo below. There's an old Middle English word "bole," meaning "tree trunk," from which "bollard" is probably derived. Of course! Boats have been tied to trees all through history. Therefore bollards are simply artificial trees.


0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home


Visitor Map
Create your own visitor map!