A Bad Travel Companion
3 August, 2017
Prussian Field Marshall Count Alfred von Schlieffen sounds like a rather dreary road companion. When an aide pointed out the ‘beauty of the Pregel River sparking in the rising sun’, Count von Schlieffen gave the aide a hard look and replied:
‘an unimportant obstacle.’
In appreciation of unimportant obstacles, the Author would like to share some sparking rivers she’s admired through the years (none with the rising sun, she must admit).
The Tobyhanna in Pocono, Pennsylvania
Newtown Creek, between Brooklyn and Queens, New York
The Rhine at Königswinter, Germany
River Thames at Limehouse, London
*anecdote encountered in The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman.
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the Diligent Observer 
Beautiful! You will have to add the Schuykill and the Wissahickon.