Sepia Saturday (a day early) brings the idea of bridges to mind.
So I am off to search for any kind of structures that cross space or water...
1890s "Otto Mears’ Toll Road, a daring creation that connected Oray Colorado with the now "Million Dollar Highway."
I've been waiting for a chance to share this structure! I wonder how long it lasted! Isn't it interesting to see the rejected lumber lying about all over the place!
Old Bridge over Flat Creek, Montreat NC 2014
The old bridge with Rhododendron rails over Flat Creek, Montreat NC
Bridge rebuilt in 2022 over Flat Creek - before Hurricane Helene floods washed it away in 2024.
Rod Chase- Twilight in Central Park, NY
Van Gogh, The Gleize Bridge over the Vigueirat Canal
A modern covered bridge (over a road I believe) in Old Salem NC...where my friend stood as we began our tour of the old town.
A true bridge to nowhere, near Arches National Park, Moab Utah. 2025
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Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week!
Our host, Alan, gives this introduction:
For want of something better, I have given this week's prompt image the title "Bridges To Nowhere". The photograph comes from the extensive collection of my Uncle Frank, and shows a very decorative bridge across a seaside boating lake. As it leads simply from one side of the lake to the other, I suppose you can say that it is a bridge to nowhere, but that is not something that can be said about old photographs in general. Old photographs provide us with a bridge to somewhere, and that somewhere is the past. So, once again, we ask you to share your old photographs here on Sepia Saturday, by posting them on or around Saturday 22nd November 2025 and adding a link to the list below. And if you would like to plan your Sepia Saturday posts for the remainder of the year, here is a list of our weekly prompt images.
I invite you to consider joining the fun of sharing an old photo or two with Sepia Saturday sometime!-----
Today's quote:
I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.
-June Jordan, writer, teacher, and activist (1936-2002)
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Today's goddess:
Beautiful pregnant goddess figurine, created about 24,000 years ago at the Kostenki - Borshevo region on the Don River, north of the Black Sea.
Kostenki / Kostienki is a very important Paleolithic site on the Don River in Russia. It was a settlement which contained goddess/ansestor figures, dwellings made of mammoth bones, and many flint tools and bone implements. Actually it is not a single site but an area consisting of more than twenty Palaeolithic site locations on the right bank of the river, between the villages of Kostenki and Borshevo.
The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Thanks FB post The Mother Goddess
...I LOVE bridges. Let's build them instead of walls.
ReplyDeleteYes, that’s a good image, to bridge the gulf that anger has built between people. A bridge of love…or just human kindness!
DeleteHello Barb,
ReplyDeleteGreat collection of bridge photos. I like yours and Tom's comment on bridges above. Take care, have a great day and a happy weekend.
Thanks for coming over and commenting. Glad you enjoyed the bridge collection!
DeleteI wondered if you'd have a,covered bridge. We used to have one but I believe it's now closed to traffic. Not built for heavy vehicles. That wood structure -- I wonder if the bits fell off in use?
ReplyDeleteOh my, don't want to think of bits falling off when people traveled across a bridge! I used to have a bunch of photos of covered bridges, as well as of the one I happened upon in the wilderness of NC. I was sort of lost and going along a highway which had nothing at all on it for miles, and then saw a sign to a covered bridge, and there it was!
DeleteThe goddess figurine is beautiful. I wonder what this world would be like now if there were more goddess worship and less male god fear and trembling.
ReplyDeleteIt does make consideration of our sad social conditions worth thinking about...or in my case, just to speak up and say, a divine feminine way sure feels much better to me.
DeleteBridges are cool but The Mother Goddess is cooler.
ReplyDeleteThank you for agreeing with goddess cultures. I love learning about them!
DeleteThat first bridge gives me the jitters!
ReplyDeleteI would either want to walk over after horses and coach - or definitely close my eyes. The Million Dollar Highway still exists with breath-taking drop offs on its many curves!
DeleteBridges are often well worth photographing.
ReplyDeleteI like bridges. My mom was fascinated by them and could tell you about the engineering.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great collection of bridge pix to share. That first one has to be my favorite. Wow! And the newer version of a bridge over Flat Creek (washed away in '24) lost the charm of the older rough timber versions. The stone bridge in Central Park reminds me of the stone bridges over Stow Lake in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. And the covered bridge over a road is rather interesting? Lots of neat choices here.
ReplyDeleteThis was a super collection of bridges! We are fortunate to still have a few of the old ones in our mountains, but sadly several were taken out by Helene last fall. I looked up your first image of Otto Mears Toll Road. It was remade into a proper highway in the 1920s. Here is a terrific website on its history along with a lot of photos. It made Mr. Mears a rich man. https://westernmininghistory.com/2239/photos-of-the-otto-mears-toll-road/
ReplyDeleteA fine array of bridges, though I don’t think I would want to venture on that first lumber bridge. Also I have never heard of “rhodedendrom railings - my favourite the classic Central Park bridge. Love your wise word - about bridging the gulf of anger between people - so true today as ever.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great theme! I don't know how many bridges I've photographed. Must check!
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