I am excited to be your host this week. The challenge is for you to show us your favorite bridge images. You can feature any kind of bridge: natural bridges, foot bridges, swinging bridges, highway bridges, stone bridges, railroad bridges, or any other kind of bridge you can think of.
I live in an area where there are many bridges. I have to cross a bridge over a creek just to leave my neighborhood. I have seen many kinds of bridges during my travels and enjoy photographing them. I hope the following bridges from our travels will give you a few ideas. I can’t wait to see your responses.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Ha’Penny Bridge across the River Liffey, Dublin, Ireland
Left to Right: Ha’Penny Bridge foot bridge across the River Liffey, Dublin, Ireland, Stone Bridge, Winterset, Iowa.
Mackinac Bridge, Michigan
Columbia River Bridge between Washington and Oregon
Horace Wilkinson Bridge on I-10, Louisiana
Left to Right: Bridge over River Laude at Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland; Bridge on Otter Crest Drive, Oregon.
Covered Bridge, Bath, New Hampshire
London Bridge, Lake Havasu City, Nevada
The Atlantic Bridge on the Panama Canal
Alaska Railroad Bridge
Last week John challenged us to show Places Shaped by Water. Your responses were amazing. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.
I’m looking forward to seeing your bridges. Please limit your responses to no more than 10 images and be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to this post.
Be sure to check back on Saturday, September 19 at noon eastern time when Ann-Christine will be our host.
Welcome to the next post in my series highlighting states we have visited throughout the years. I hope you will enjoy coming along for the ride!
I will be featuring the states alphabetically. The next state is
Iowa
Iowa became the 29th state on December 28, 1846 and the capital is Des Moines.
Iowa is another state we have driven through numerous times while wandering around America. On one of our trips we planned our journey through Iowa around two bucket list destinations.
Our first bucket list destination was the Field of Dreams Movie Site near Dyersville. (We actually camped across the Mississippi River in Wisconsin but that is for another post).
As we walked around the bases I couldn’t help but think of the famous line from the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” starring Kevin Costner and Amy Madigan:
“If you build it he will come.”
The corn was high when we were there, just like in the movie. I could just imagine the ghosts of famous baseball players walking out of the cornfield onto the baseball diamond to play. Another famous line went through my head the entire time we were there.
“Is this heaven?”
“No. It’s Iowa”
Kids were batting and running around the bases
It was easy to imagine the players coming out of the corn to play ball
View from behind home plate – If you build it he will come
Field of Dreams Farm House
The next Iowa destination was Winterset and it also had a movie theme. We fell in love with the town with it’s six covered bridges, John Wayne’s birthplace (and a street named after him), movie locations from “The Bridges of Madison County” starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, and a pizza place that delivered to our campsite in the City of Winterset campground.
Driving along the gravel country roads in search of the six covered bridges was a wonderful way to spend the day. As we went from one bridge to the next we passed by acres and acres of cornfields.
Cutler-Donahoe Bridge, built in 1870
Hogback Covered Bridge, Madison County, Iowa
Cedar Covered Bridge, Madison County, Iowa
Holliwell Covered Bridge, Madison County, Iowa
Imes Covered Bridge, Madison County, Iowa
Roseman Covered Bridge, Madison County, Iowa
The stone bridge located in the park next to the city campground was featured in one of the movie scenes. Another scene was filmed inside the Northside Cafe where the walls were covered with photographs of scenes from the movie.
Stone Bridge in Winterset, Iowa
We enjoyed breakfast at the Northside Cafe – over 100 years old and featured in “The Bridges of Madison County”
John Wayne was born in Winterset and The John Wayne Home is filled with memorabilia.
John Wayne’s birthplace in Winterset, Iowa
Winterset, IA – Birthplace of John Wayne
A few years later as we traveled through Iowa we decided on the spur of the moment to take a break from driving to explore around Coralville Dam. Before we got there, we crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa and stopped at the Iowa 80, the world’s largest truck stop.
The World’s Largest Truck Stop
A little later that day we set up camp at the Dam Complex, a Corps of Engineers Park on Coralville Lake near Iowa City. In addition to taking a look at the Coralville Dam, we discovered fossils at the Delvonian Fossil Gorge and later took a walk on a nature trail for a view of Coralville Lake.
Wandering Dawgs 