Tagged With "Covered Bridge"

I usually keep my eyes up, but do glance down from time to time. These are on the sidewalk in the town of Banff. Probably not functional manhole covers, but "art under the feet".

Those are not just beautiful, but functional in another way...if not as utility covers, then as guides for pedestrians. Do all the streets have them?

Originally Posted by PHeymont: Those are not just beautiful, but functional in another way...if not as utility covers, then as guides for pedestrians. Do all the streets have them? The streets crossing the main street in Banff (Banff Ave) have them, although I don't believe all the streets in town have them. I expect they're just up on the main pedestrian areas of town. But I agree, they are nicely done.

In Tokyo, They also use the covers for Fire Hydrants,something I haven't noticed before

Thanks to you Paul, I'm now taking a lot of photos of manhole covers and birds on statues. Really some interesting things I never paid much mind to before. Here's a couple more manhole covers. I'll add the my statue birds on your next story. In Oslo Fire Hydrant in Tokyo

This looks like the kind of place it's so easy to drive past, unknowing, unless someone tells you to look for it and be rewarded. One of the reasons I sometimes like to "shunpike!"

I learned a new word this morning, a good one! I suppose in relation to an interstate, it is indeed, shunpiking. But in the foothills, Hwy 49, the road over the new bridge, is the main artery through the area. All things relative.

Thank you for the recap!! I was a great hike the second time, on paper and in pictorial form.......less hot and exhausting. But it was a great experience!

  If you have never been to the Catskill Mountains in New York State you are missing one of the real beautiful areas of the Northeastern United States. The Catskills fill the area between the Hudson River to the east and the Delaware River to the...

  “Going to the river” is a thing both locals and visitors to Gold Country seem to do a lot.  My son, having lived here for a time, often heads straight up Highway 49 to the South Fork as soon as he gets to town, but I’ve...

The experts caught Gumbo this week at the Routhierville Covered Bridge, in Quebec Province, Canada

Jonathan L shares an unusual artwork, at but not in a museum.

Travel Rob visits one of the most picturesque covered bridges in the world, the Vaughan Creek Covered Bridge in St. Martins, Nova Scotia.

Well thought chase from TravelRob. Good clues and interesting history to this area. Surprised to find that in France it's just called a KFC .

I was very surprised Garry to see a PFK sign instead the KFC. When it comes to fast food chicken though in that part of the world, there's no place like Dixie Lee.

That looks like an offering from a road-kill Restaurant - "From your grill to ours". Thanks Rob. Enjoyed that one.

Nice one Rob! I pass this bridge every time i go to Quebec, enjoyed the view but didn't know much about it. I'll go to bed a little wiser tonight thanks to you. :-) And Rob, I'm with you...there's nothing like a good Dixie Lee.

Beautiful!

Samantha and her husband Eugene toured six covered bridges in Eugene, Oregon. She shares some pictures of her visit here.

Samantha and her husband Eugene toured six covered bridges in Eugene, Oregon. She shares some pictures of her visit here.

Samantha and her husband Eugene toured six covered bridges in Eugene, Oregon. She shares some pictures of her visit here.

Samantha and her husband Eugene toured six covered bridges in Eugene, Oregon. She shares some pictures of Dorena Bridge

In a previous  BLOG , we took a look at some of the world's most popular art, and in a form you'll not often find in museums, but can be found nearly everywhere: manhole covers.