Sunday Selections #4
For this weeks Sunday Selections, I've chosen an old wishing well that I found at Hahndorf, here in SA. That's South Australia, not South Africa or South America. I was wandering my way to the bus stop since it was time to start heading home, when I saw this from across the road. Naturally, I crossed over to have a closer look. Was it a functioning well? Did it have water in it? Where was the bucket? Did people throw coins in to make a wish? No. No. Long gone. No. Set in an overgrown block next to a house, the well has a steel cable for winding up a non-existent bucket. The winding handle is also missing. I assume in older times this would have been a sturdy rope. I was disappointed to find no water in the bottom, not even a few inches covered by a grid, for people to throw wishing coins into. Instead the bottom is filled in with dirt and a couple of rocks. There's also a broken ring of some kind of metal, rusty, but not too eaten away. I was pleased...