'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

This, Porvoo's main bridge, is currently under scaffolding for a year long repair.

You can't be me, I'm taken

Scan through this maze of iron, and youj may begin to see the graceful arch of Germany's highest railroad bridge, the Müngstener Brücke, again over the Wupper.

Here's a hint.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

Stream with modern art

As a hint to where that was taken, here is some modern architecture. I took the picture from almost the same place.

Le pont de l'Université bridge in Lyon on the Rhône .

 View of the Gateway Courthouse bridge in Lyon, Passerelle du Palais de Justice

My husband (wearing glasses) with his mother, daughter and daughter's boyfriend on the bridge in Lyon.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

This is just a view toodling down the canal;

 This is a lock at RECHICOURT that is about 16 meters high (or low),

and then one gets to the St. Louis-Arzviller Plane and takes a "barge elevator"  (my term) down, as you can see in the following photos.

And we end our barge journey in:

Strasbourg.  I could retire near here and be pretty contented, I think. I really like the Strasbourg area, on both sides of the border.


'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

From bridges

On a very small tributary of the Loire.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

From bridges

From the bridge of sighs: the prisoner's last view of the outside world.

From bridges

Waiting for a gondola.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

one, two, three : Millenium, Southwark, Tower?

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

The other side of WoB's last bridge above

Brisbane

Melbourne

Sydey (friend)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein

Above, a canal in Annecy, France, with pedestrian bridge in background.

Small overpass of a creek in Les Contamines, France

And another view from that little overpass in Les Contamine, looking toward Mt. Blanc.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

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Seine at night looking on bank

Also from Seine at night, at bridge by Eiffel Tower

Lovely view of the Pont au Change. (oops, not night)

Night view of the Pont au Change.

Night view of Seine bridge.


'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Bridge over River Hers, near where I live

River Taff in Cardiff

The bay it flows into

Here is Ponte Vecchio in Florence on a summer morning:

I got to Venice, too, having changed trains there. The new Calatrava-designed bridge over the end of the Grand Canal:

Bridge over a side canal:

The uglier side of the Rialto Bridge (sorry for the bad lights):

Flowers on a small bridge:

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

Past Gloggnitz, there is this miniature bridge/underpass: it's about one metre high, you have to cross it with a deep bow!

As for a stream, here is a canal alongside the Schwarza river at Schlöglmühl:

The steep climb begins past Payerbach-Reichenau when the line curves back on itself on the Schwarzatal-Viadukt (228 m long, 25 m high):

Past the station of Küb, the Höllgraben-Viadukt (82 m long, 28 m high):

Just before the station of Eichberg (where the line changes from the valley of the Schwarza into that of the Heidbach) is the Abfaltersbachgraben-Viadukt (98 m long, 30 m high), seen from both directions:

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

The oxbow turned industrial harbour turned boat lake, with a thermal power plant in the background:

On the other side of the Kopaszi Dam is the Danube:

South from where the lake connects to the Danube, a dog was jumping into and back out of the water (I tried several shots but never managed to catch him mid-air):

Just to the north, the main rail bridge (a "temporary" post-war construction still in place) and the newest road bridge of the city cross the Danube. The latter, distinguished by its red combined cantilever-and-lamp-poles, has been named for nearby city district Lágymányos for 16 years (chosen by public vote), but Hungary's and Budapest's new right-wing governments had to leave a mark by re-naming it for a historical figure, hence Rákóczi Bridge.

A preserved Nohab diesel loco crossed the railway bridge.

Here is the Lágymányosi/Rákóczi Bridge from the start of the pedestrian walkway.

Piers to the north, with one span of the Petőfi Bridge (the third-newest road bridge, originally named for the between-world-wars dictator).

A ship before the new National Theatre (a memento of the previous, 1998-2002 rule of the present government):

Looking up the Danube, with four of the main bridges and the touristy parts of Budapest visible:

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

Avignon: the bridge to nowhere

Toulouse


_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

On the Napoleon Bridge, on a tributary of the Soca.

Ljubljana :

Padlocks on bridges are this year's thing :

The dragon, from the bridge of the same name :


_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

Why don't we try a Photoblog theme that challenges: for instance "How we waste electricity", or some such? For revealing in, say, a month's time?

You can't be me, I'm taken

Check my Australian way of life dairy for more photos...

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein

Cascade Langevin:

Rivière Langevin (with a tree fern in the background):

Cascade Blanche, cirque de Salazie:

Voile de la Mariée ("Bridalveil fall"), cirque de Salazie:

Anse des Cascades:

A small ravine called "Bassin Pigeon" near Saint Paul:

After zoom

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Belgrade - Danube River

Belgrade - Sava River

Denube River - Djerdap

Vlasinsko jezero (lake)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein

A footbridge down in the Carlsbad Caverns:

Several images of the Golden Gate Bridge:

And here's a stream that runs along beside the little train that takes passengers from Durango to Silverton and back in Colorado.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

Here's another view of it.

 

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

And here's a nearby waterfall.  These photos were taken in the Brecon Beacons National Park.

And finally, my last Bridges and Streams photo, a little canal near a village on the North Sea near Wittmund, Germany:

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Technically no good, but that's not the point.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!