Sunday Bridges - Lakeside Park

This bridge led to a very special place in the town where I grew up - a place that I used to think was my secret hiding place. I realize now that it never really was "secret", but as long as I thought it was then that was all that mattered.

Please visit our friend Louis (who I will have the pleasure of meeting in San Francisco today!) to view other bridges from around the world.

Stars and Stripes

This is a bridge in Indiana that crosses the Patoka River. I took this picture over the Memorial Day holiday on a recent trip to the Midwest. It just seemed like the right day to post this.

You can see more bridges from around the world by visiting Louis at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

Sunday Bridges - Foot Bridge

This is a bridge Magpie and I crossed on our recent Marvelous Monday picture taking trip. This photo was taken with a Diana 38mm lens mounted on my Nikon D40.

You can see more bridges from around the world by visiting Louis at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

Sunday Bridges

This is a night shot of a bridge I cross to take my daughter to school.  The bridge crosses over the Gila River in the West Valley of Phoenix, Arizona.

You can see more bridges from around the world by visiting Louis at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

Sunday Bridges - Leo French Park

This little bridge crosses the lake at the park in the town in Illinois where I grew up. When I was a child and living there it was just an uncovered rather plain looking bridge, but I remember loving to walk across it.

This is our first Sunday Bridge post. You can see more bridges from around the world by visiting Louis at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

There Be Trolls Here...

I don't see Billy Goat Gruff, but I'm pretty sure there is a troll living under this little bridge.

Wednesday Doorway - Damn Dam

"The Gillespie Dam was constructed in 1921 by a local rancher to replace an existing structure. As the dam was located at an important river crossing that would later become US Route 80, the Arizona Highway Department - the predecessor to the Arizona Department of Transportation - constructed a concrete apron at the foot of the dam to allow for vehicular crossings. As the dam was a simple spillover construction, during times of heavy runoff cars would have to be pulled through the flow by trucks, and during floods could not cross at all.

In anticipation of the formation of the United States Highway System in 1926, the Highway Department commissioned the construction of a steel truss bridge just downstream from the dam." (See our post Bridges and Politicians) All this information comes courtesy of Wikipedia.

Now here's where the "doorway" part comes in.

"The winter months of 1993 saw unusually high rainfall amounts that resulted in record flows through central Arizona rivers and streams, including the Salt River, a major tributary to the Gila upstream from the Gillespie Dam. At approximately 10:30 on the morning of January 9, the dam failed when a segment approximately 120 feet (37 m) in length collapsed into the river. While the precise cause of the failure is unknown, the extreme flooding was almost certainly a contributing factor."

Now I'm not one to spread rumors, but here I go anyway.

Rumor has it that some local ranchers/farmers may have had a hand in "helping" the bridge to "fail".  Thus creating a doorway where none should rightfully be.

Bridges and Politicians

"A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it." Oscar Levant