The Feather & The Yellow, Aylesford

As soon as I saw this feather lying between the very wobbly double yellow lines it triggered a thought about how cowardice is represented in both action and visually. 
In the first world war men of seemingly fighting age who were not in uniform or fighting in the trenches but seen in everyday life, could be sent white feathers as a supposed indication of their cowardice. This could sometimes lead to men who had a legitimate right to be where they were, through everything from medical dispensation to a reserved profession, being branded cowards. The origin of the white feather, very strangely, goes back to the days of cockfighting and cocks with white feathers often being regarded as poor fighters!
As for the yellow and being "yellow-bellied" that started out as a reference to a type of frog having a certain part of their anatomy that was this striking colour. Apparently when approached they often "ran away" into the undergrowth!
I've been struggling a bit with my photographic mojo for the past few days. I think it has coincided with being busier at work (my colleague in my part of the photography dept is on holiday for two and a half weeks) and the new deadline season beginning to kick off. Thank God for the bank holiday weekend.