The Bay Bridge - Eastern Span
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Golden Ears Bridge
Spanning the Fraser River, connecting Pitt Meadows with Langley, BC
Canada
If you look closely, you might catch a glimpse of a 4th 'peak', the
volcanic, Mount Baker is tucked away in the background.
Washington, USA
Hand held....hence, a little grain
Goat Island Park and Greenway is another one of those gems off the beaten path that's worth visiting. Beautiful scenery and so much fun to explore.
Cramerton, NC USA
Spanning 40m over the Aoos river and over 20m high the semicircular bridge at Konitsa was a technical challenge for the master masons of the region.
A Grey Heron flew towards me today as I pretended to be a tree, amazing to see these big birds at close range - Always something to do on a rainy day :-)
This bridge, the Hunsecker's Mill Covered Bridge, is the longest single span covered bridge in Lancaster County, PA. There are 29 covered bridges in the county, the most of any county in the state. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunsecker%27s_Mill_Covered_Bridge I did visit two more covered bridges that morning, but I wasn't happy with the images I took there. Here are the two other bridges I saw: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucher%27s_Mill_Covered_Bridge and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitzer%27s_Mill_Covered_Bridge .
The Zeelandbrug spans the Oosterschelde estuary and is with 5,022 metres the longest bridge in the Netherlands. It was built between 1963 and 1965.
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The Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge (in the background) is three-mile state-of-the-art, twin-span crossing connecting Rockland and Westchester counties. Located less than 20 miles north of New York City, ..
Traveling up river, leaving Pitt River's bridges behind
Pitt River as seen in this image, separates the municipalities of Pitt Meadows and Port Coquitlam
BC
Canada
A lone Seagull owns the sky in Brooklyn. The span is the Marine Parkway Bridge connecting Flatbush, Brooklyn with the Rockaways.
The iconic Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, as seen from Alcatraz.
"The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula—to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. It also carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and is designated as part of U.S. Bicycle Route 95. Recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Wonders of the Modern World, the bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco and California.
The idea of a fixed link between San Francisco and Marin had gained increasing popularity during the late 19th century, but it was not until the early 20th century that such a link became feasible. Joseph Strauss served as chief engineer for the project, with Leon Moisseiff, Irving Morrow and Charles Ellis making significant contributions to its design. The bridge opened to the public in 1937 and has undergone various retrofits and other improvement projects in the decades since.
The Golden Gate Bridge is described in Frommer's travel guide as "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world." At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, titles it held until 1964 and 1998 respectively. Its main span is 1,280m and total height is 227m."
This is an image of the mighty Clifton Supension Bridge which has been spanning the Avon Gorge in Bristol, UK since 1864.
I did think there would be a better sunrise than was presented with my hopes being raised when the sun slowly appeared behind me and parts of the sky were tinged with pink. Sadly this came to nothing.
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I like the view of the skeletal structure in this one.
Great Egret, Ardea alba
Seabourne Creek Nature Park, Rosenberg, Texas.
The lifting bridge Magdeburg is a former one-track railway bridge, which spans the Elbe in Magdeburg. It is one of the oldest and largest lifting bridges in Germany and is a listed building.
Also called the Akashi Strait Bridge or Pearl Bridge , it is a suspension bridge which links the city of Kobe on the Japanese Mainland of Honshu to Iwaya on Iwaji Island...
Longest Span - 1,991 meters (6,532ft. 1.237 ML )
Height -2b2.8 meters ( 928 ft. py long )
Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge ( left) and
Eads Bridge ( right) spanning Mississippi River
at St. Louis, Missouri.
The transition between day and night at the Throgs Neck Bridge at blue hour, crossing over the mouth of the East River from Long Island Sound, from Queens to The Bronx, NYC SUNY Maritime College is on an island underneath, and the ships docked there are part of their campus. -- June 9, 2020
Aus Wikipedia: Der Alcázar von Sevilla (spanisch Reales Alcázares de Sevilla, deutsch „Königlicher Alcázar von Sevilla“) ist der mittelalterliche Königspalast von Sevilla. Die Anlage hat eine lange, bis in maurische Zeit zurückreichende Baugeschichte und wird bis heute von der spanischen Königsfamilie als offizielle Residenz genutzt, wenn sich diese in Sevilla aufhält.
Der Palast ist eines der am besten erhaltenen Beispiele für die Mudéjar-Architektur, die unter christlicher Herrschaft entstandenen Bauten mit islamischem Einfluss.
A view of the iconic lighthouse there in Maine ... with a really cool rainbow that formed near sunset with the passing front. Needless to say I was rushing around like a nut case taking snaps :)
My wife is also in the frame ... :)
This picture was taken from beneath the Blue Water Bridge(-s). It clearly shows that their construction is of two styles, but observed from either side they appear to be one bridge. Likewise, when traveling from the US to Canada, as shown in this picture, we would take the Blue Water Bridge. Conversely, when returning to the US from Canada, we would take the Blue Water Bridge. So 1 bridge span + 1 other bridge span = (2 sections of) one Blue Water Bridge.
Both bridges are now one-way traffic. The original 1938 bridge has three westbound lanes from Point Edward, Ontario, Canada to Port Huron, Michigan, USA; the later 1997 bridge has three eastbound lanes from Port Huron to Point Edward.
Here is a capture of the rainbow at Pemaquid where I could get it spanning over the lighthouse. Amazing to see at that venue and right before sunset.
Viewing Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, over a bridge spanning the Charles River on Mothers Day (May 13) 2018.
"A goldfish has a ten second memory span by scientists we are told
And their span of time seems to be brief they soon grow weak and old
But how can even the most intelligent human being know what goes on in a fish's brain
As the ways of Nature it would seem beyond us to explain."
- Francis Duggan
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Welsh St Valentine's Day
Today is Santes (St) Dwynwen's Day, which is the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine's Day.
The story as it is today is that Dwynwen fell in love with Deelon Dafodrill and, because her father the king had promised her elsewhere, she prayed for a cure for her love. Allegedly an angel grants her a potion which turns Meelon to ice (poor chap) and in return for his release, she is to remain unmarried and that through her, God becomes a refuge for all true lovers.
She then retreats to the little island of Llanddwyn where she becomes a herbalist and healer she dies circa AD460 and later becomes a patron saint of sick animals as well, and her early 'church' and well became a site of pilgrimage.
If we read between the lines she clearly was a skilled natural herbalist and healer whose services and potions (including love potions most likely) were well sought, and after her death, the well from which she drew her water was imbued with magical properties as the herb dispenser was no longer living. It is unlikely that in the early 5th centurey the term 'angel' would have been common place or even known as Christianity would have been in its absolute infancy in these islands in in those days, having not that long previously been officially adopted by the Roman Empire, and all Bible's were in Latin, only recently produced and rarely available to the public who spoke not Latin. It is of little doubt at that time traditional nature deities would still have been the order of the day.
This is further evidenced by the fact that under the reformation of Henry VIII her veneration and site of pilgrimage became a practice to be suppressed and she is not mentioned in Anglican or Catholic records as a saint.
She is however, recognised in the Eastern Orthodox Liturgics.
Japanese red maple leaves on snow, caught in the fleeting late afternoon light at Lake Tahoe. Not very deep, but very welcome, and more is forecast Sunday and Monday. :-)))
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