I hope you don't think 'oh, no, not another covered bridge.' I ran across these while going through my actual photos and scanned them in. I tried to reduce their size...I am not sure why sometimes my software will reduced scanned images just fine and others I cannot. Well, I can but I don't get the expected photos...it is too weird and too long to try to go into detail. And I spent too much time with the clone tool to go back and scan them in at a smaller size.
I tried using my software to get a better photo out of this but I couldn't. It is the Narrows Bridge in Parke County, Indiana. It was built in 1883 by J.A. Britton, and retired from use in 1960 when a regular two lane paved bridge was built next to it. The bridge is still sound.
I thought I would show some of the structure of the bridge since I had these photos that really show it well. This is the bottom of it--can you imagine building this in 1883? I really wonder what kind of tools they had to accomplish this.
The picture above as well as the two below show the inside of the bridge. I love to imagine the sound of a horse walking through it...I am not sure how long the bridge is...if I find out later tonight I will edit and add the length here.

There are different views as to why bridges were built covered, some of the reasons being:
1. to protect the wood structure of the bridge. In ways I tend to think this might be the right one.
2. I have heard it thought it was to keep the bridge from getting iced over in bad winter weather. I think that is even sound reasoning.
3. still another reason is to keep horses from being scared when walking across them....
I know I have read of other reasons but right now these are the ones that stick in my mind.

An old photograph I scanned in...I know it isn't really great but it appeals to me. I have no memory of what I did wrong. I am sure a lot, but I like the results anyway.

Just posting another picture of a barn...I need to make a web album just of barns. I also realize now that I need to take notes of where the barns are when I take their picture. I think this is another in Parke County, and even think I can find it. But I had to think a moment to remember where it is.

It was a beautiful day today...I should have been working in my yard but I was in the mood to sew a little so that is what I did while I did some laundry. When my husband got home, we put up new clotheslines...so now I can hang sheets, and towels outside when the weather is nice. There is just something so nice about going to bed on sheets that have hung in the sunshine.

I have also got to try to be prepared to get a picture of Mama Squirrel and Puss Puss, aka the princess. She comes up on our back porch to eat sunflower seeds and to have me feed her nuts. She realizes that Shelby, our dog will not hurt her. She will be sitting on one side of me and Shelby on the other and she is fine with that.

However, Puss Puss wants out so bad...if the inside door is open, she is always sitting looking out the storm door. Tonight, I fed Mama Squirrel before we put up the clotheslines. As we were working on that, I looked toward the house, and there was Mama Squirrel nose to nose with Puss Puss with only the glass separating them! I do not know if it was because Shelby was also there, or if she was actually just teasing the cat.

Then after I came in, I happened in the kitchen and there they were again, but she was gone before I could get my camera. I would like to know what goes through her mind...and I am wondering will she have babies again this spring. We are wanting to have this old maple tree cut down, or at least topped real good. So I am kind of wondering how she will react to that. We are really hoping it doesn't bother her...last fall she had her second litter across the street in a different tree.