How did she actually do that?

We've had quite enough personal posts...whew, I'm definitely putting my feet up. Now that I've returned to the internet, now to make sure all the providers of things I need/enjoy know where I am.

So here's a post I prepared a while back. Just something I find quite interesting!

 Maria Popova writes about Marie Tharp and her work mapping the oceans floors.

This essay came from the recently published book Traversal, by the same author.

Marie Tharp at work. (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.)

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. -Robert Neelly Bellah, sociologist and author (1927-2013)

Yes, I know this post doesn’t have any of my personal life news in it. Just wait. I’ll be back soon!

Covered Bridges (part 2)

I was interested in finding out some history of covered bridges after posting my first blog in this series. Wikepedia shares this... 

The oldest surviving truss bridge in the world is the Kapellbrücke in Switzerland, first built in the 1300s. Modern-style timber truss bridges were pioneered in Switzerland in the mid-1700s.^[9] Germany has 70 surviving historic wooden covered bridges.^[10]

Spreuer Bridge in Lucerne

• The Holzbrücke Bad Säckingen spans the river Rhine from Bad Säckingen, Germany, to Stein, Switzerland. It was first built before 1272, and has been destroyed and rebuilt many times.
• Switzerland has many timber covered bridges,^[11] including Kapellbrücke, Spreuer Bridge, and Neubrügg.
• The Ponte Coperto in Pavia is a stone and brick arch bridge over the Ticino River in Pavia, Italy. The previous bridge, dating from 1354 (itself a replacement for a Roman construction), was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1945. A debate on whether to fix or replace it ended when the bridge partially collapsed in 1947, requiring new construction, which began in 1949.

About 14,000 covered bridges have been built in the United States,^[13] mostly in the years 1825 to 1875.^[2] The first documented was the Permanent Bridge, completed in 1805 to span the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.^[14][15] However, most other early examples of covered bridges do not appear until the 1820s. Extant bridges from that decade include New York's Hyde Hall Bridge and Pennsylvania's Hassenplug Bridge, both built in 1825, and the Haverhill–Bath Covered Bridge and the Roberts Covered Bridge, in New Hampshire and Ohio respectively, both built in 1829.^[5]

The vast majority of America's remaining covered bridges can be found in the eastern states with the notable exception of Oregon, which possesses a collection of around fifty.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_bridge

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Baltimore

Bartram-Goshen Covered Bridge

The following are taken from the two directions of this covering over a roadway, named Blue Ridge, Georgia. I don't see any indication that it is really a bridge, nor goes over a waterway of any kind. Can it be considered a covered bridge?

Bridge of Dreams - Brinkhaven, Ohio

Someone is thinking along more modern lines for this bridge.

Brinkhaven, Ohio

It seems someone else liked that name...

Another view for Brinkhaven, Ohio

Bridge On The Kal-Haven Trail by Michael Kucinski

Unknown red wooden bridge. I tried to increase contrast and darken the photo...can you read whatever the sign says?

That's all the bridges labeled with "B" or one without a label. There are a few more in my folder...

Being single or being in a relationship are both valid options for living life and one is not better than the other.

Auguste Rodin, sculptor said, “I invent nothing, I rediscover,” and “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

Sharing with Tom's Tuesday Treasures

From the internet

 

By Susan Seddon Boulet - The Ancient Ones

Dandelion lidded jar by Claire Prenton

Photo by Jay Spring

Fiber art by Eileen Williams

By Kaoru Yamada 

By Georgia O'Keeffe

And this is my collected photos from Facebook posts last week. Sorry no good theme to tie them together!

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Read every day something no one else is reading. 
Think something no one else is thinking. 
It is bad for the mind to be always a part of unanimity.
    - Christopher Morley

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A quick note with full face from Tanbark Ridge yesterday, March 29.  I took my next door neighbor up to our back yard, as she’d never been on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Her phone has an app which takes panoramas still while mine has quit.

Look to the skies

 

Blue Ridge Apartments, Black Mountain NC, March 2026

Skywatch Friday

Another photographer's photo of the eclipse of the moon.

Monument  Valley, Utah. This is close to where I want to move in Southwest Colorado next summer.

Near where I used to live, St. Petersburg, FL

The most fundamental law is to recognise that we share the planet with other beings, and that we have a duty to care for our common home.

VANDANA SHIVA

The Cloth Whisperer

 As found on Mira Gupta's Facebook page...

"The Cloth Whisperer," Jude Hill creates Spirit Cloths using a philosophy rooted in storytelling and the inherent nature of fabric.

Her journey began with domestic sewing taught by her mother and grandmother, eventually evolving into a creative practice during a long commute where she completed her first queen-sized quilt entirely by hand.

Hill describes herself as an alternative quilter and folk artist who rejects modern synthetic additives, or "gunk," that she feels interferes with the cloth’s integrity. Instead, she prioritizes recycling and repurposing old textiles, noting that aged fabric is softer and more receptive to hand stitching. Her process, which she calls "thought catching" and "what-iffing," treats each piece as a metaphorical sampler of life’s journey, blending layers and mending techniques to explore the relationship between sewing and weaving.

My favorite of her works. How many critters do you see in these?

Her work reminds me of "Slow Stitching" which  a friend is enjoying.

My  second favorite!

Sharing with Saturday’s Critters 

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Tomorrow is Imbolc, or Bridgid's Day.

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The other night I had an interesting phone call from my oldest grandson. He wanted to know if I was interested in attending his wedding on a cruise in 2027. I had to decline, thinking of two things, my health and the cost. I wished them a really happy time, since they do take cruises regularly (yearly at least) and both are working full time from their recently purchased home. It's nice to think of their future and what a different life style they have, though we are still FaceBook friends and share a bit of our lives there.

I'm not taking part in all the walk outs and vigils this week, so won't be posting about them this time. I'm so glad that people are doing what they need to do!