Summit Street Bridge
I think this is a marginal picture, but it's interesting enough to me to post it. This carved capital is atop the columns on the facade of the bridge that takes Summit Street over the creek (I use the term loosely) that was dammed in the early part of the last century (how odd it feels to write that phrase) to form the lake in Miller Park. I don't know if the bridge was built at that time or later. But the scrollwork in the stone capitals is as elegant as it is complex. Pitted from all the years of weathering, it stands as a reminder that even simple things can be enriched, and in turn enrich others for generations afterward, if only the generations will take the time to be enriched by them.
Summit Street Bridge
I think this is a marginal picture, but it's interesting enough to me to post it. This carved capital is atop the columns on the facade of the bridge that takes Summit Street over the creek (I use the term loosely) that was dammed in the early part of the last century (how odd it feels to write that phrase) to form the lake in Miller Park. I don't know if the bridge was built at that time or later. But the scrollwork in the stone capitals is as elegant as it is complex. Pitted from all the years of weathering, it stands as a reminder that even simple things can be enriched, and in turn enrich others for generations afterward, if only the generations will take the time to be enriched by them.