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Theme ~ Bridges
Chosen by Lew.
Every week, when I delve into my archives to look for images to portray the current theme, I'm amazed that I actually have images that work. This week was no exception--I've taken lots of pictures of bridges.
I thought I'd use this fun image of a bridge from a unique perspective--through the front window of our moving car. (No, I was not driving.) You get to see exactly what I saw as we followed our friends (the H. family, in that car ahead of us) toward our destination: a beach cottage at Vero Beach, Florida. The H's had invited us to spend the week with them in their time share in May 2011, so we did! They told us about this bridge just five minutes from the resort, but experiencing it was truly amazing. It really did seem as if we'd drive off the edge of the road! You also get to see all those lovely smears of love bugs, which infest the Florida coast for about a week each spring!
Keeping to the perspective of from the car, below is another shot of us crossing the Louisville Bridge over the Ohio River, crossing from Kentucky into Indiana, on our way home from visiting friends in Georgia last year.
One final shot of a from the car image. This was during the rains and flooding of April 20, 2013, and we were on our way to a friend's house to help them empty their basement and save as much as possible from the encroaching waters. (Their back yard was completely flooded but the rising tide stopped just short of their basement windows!) This below is a footbridge at a golf course, and a raging torrent of what normally is a little brook babbling way below.
Speaking of floods, here is another closed bridge from the same storm system. This one is just a few blocks from home! That car almost dead center got stuck and was abandoned, and there is a tree limb wedged on the side of the car. This bridge was closed for several days until the water subsided.
On to a much prettier bridge! I thought I'd toss in just one image of a Paris bridge; if you want to see lots, I have an entire blog post dedicated to the bridges along the Seine River in Paris.
Pont au Double, Paris, France.
Back to some bridges closer to home. Knoch Knolls Park in Naperville has some beautiful walking and biking paths, and I frequently go there to capture images of the river, bridges, and a sunset or two. Here is the one main walking and biking bridge from this past winter.
Here's a view of the bridge from the winter before.
This below is my favorite shot of this bridge, taken this past January.
Same bridge, autumn:
The other bridge at Knoch Knolls Park is strictly a footbrige; here's the entrance up:
It's the prettiest bridge in autumn!
Below is the bridge from the other side, on a winter afternoon:
One little footbridge at a forest preserve close to home looks like this in the winter:
And this in autumn:
One final little footbridge, at Seager Park in Naperville in the spring.
I started out with the biggest bridge, and ended with the littlest! I can't wait to see all the bridges my fellow headbangers have posted!
Treasuring life's moments,
Christine
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