On a Sunday drive last weekend we went north along the Connecticut River. When the main road veered away from the river we took a left to follow some narrower roads and even some gravel roads to stay closer to the river.
We came upon this lovely covered bridge.
Unfortunately there were no signs to tell us anything about its age.
This stream emptied into the Connecticut, there to the far left. That's a Vermont hill in the distance.
Tree colors seem muted but my eyes saw them as brighter.
I played with iPhoto color saturation and it made it brighter. More like what I remember seeing.
I've digressed, sorry.
We visited another bridge but alas this one is no more. It once crossed the Connecticut River at this point.
It's a very small state park, used primarily as a boat launch on the Connecticut which is much narrower here.
8 comments:
I love covered bridges! That was swift retribution by Mother Nature. I can never get the colors the way I see them; perhaps I don't play around with my photo settings as much as I should.
...covered bridges are a part of history, they are beautiful.
I love covered bridges but we don't have them here. I have seen them in Pennsylvania which has the most of any state and a friend bought me a teatowel picturing many bridges including two in Vermont and two in Connecticut but none in PA. Thank you for sharing those lovely photos.
I do love the covered bridges.I saw a few when I was in New Hampshire in 2017.
This is so much fun. I do sometimes use Photoshop or my iPhone features to bring a photo closer to what I remember. I remember one trip we made in Indiana looking for different covered bridges. I think they are so cool. How sad about that last bridge.
A phone enver captures what you see. I wrote a blog about this. :)
That bridge didn't last long after being restored. It reminds me a a roof (or part of one) that I rebuilt with a friend. After it was completed, I went to his place to help out with one of his jobs. I got a phone call that a tree had just fallen on the roof.
Beautiful, iconic covered bridges, and with the fall colors — well, Wow! I would have thought the danger to them to be from flooding rather than wind. So sad about that last one. What a disappointment that must have been to those involved in rebuilding it in 1979.
So sad, but so enjoying your New Hampshire photographs. Please keep them coming.
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