A fence

The answer to my "what is this? yesterday is that it was a detail from an Emergency Throwline at Hollingworth Lake.  I didn't expect anyone to "get" it unless they had actually been there and seen it.

One of my favourite musicians is Steve Earle.  I have most of his albums and have seen him live. However, before today I had not heard his album with Shawn Colvin - "Colvin and Earle" (2016) - on which my favourite track was Tell Moses.

Caspar David Friedrich was the greatest German Romantic painter, famous for some spiritual landscapes.  His Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818) is one such. Rügen was an island in the Baltic, near to Friedrich's birthplace. This picture shows a view from the top of some spectacular chalk cliffs, down to a vast sea, which changes colour as distance increases.  

It has three figures in the foreground, all with their backs to us. Although it has been speculated that they are Friedrich himself, his wife Caroline, who he married in 1818 and with whom he visited Rügen that year and his friend, a doctor and art critic, Carl Gustav Carus. However, they cannot be identified. It seems that they are simply gazing at the view. Friedrich's intention may have been that the landscape and its beauty are more meaningful and lasting than the mere humans who decorate it.

One oddity: the clothes of the three people were very accurate depictions of the fashions of the day. However, the woman would have worn a hat. Where is it?  Perhaps it has blown-off, over the side of the cliff.  Is that what she is pointing-at? Is the man in the centre attempting a rescue?