Cape Fear River: Implicit Threat

The weather forecast that morning was for intermittent squalls accompanied by heavy downpours and powerful winds. We arrived in Wilmington N.C. late in the afternoon having experienced none of that and meandered our way down to the Riverwalk area and the wooden boardwalk that sported waterfront restaurants and grills, views up the historic cobblestone streets or across the Cape Fear River, and  locals going for crabs directly beneath sections of the boardwalks footing and offering their catch for sale to interested passersby's.*

We felt extremely fortunate in that, not one of those intermittent squalls chose to cross our path that day. *   

But a look up to sky in two different directions revealed both the continuing and ominous threat as well as the bright promise that it might never materialize. Hope prevails over threat.

But the simultaneous exposure to both at a place called "Cape Fear" and our associations to the movie of that name made the experience memorable.

We got some excellent photos of the river with an overhead bridge in the shadows of passing squall clounds, the US Carolina on the opposite shore , the partially sunny sky and the River walk and will add them after some technical difficulties are overcome. 

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