April 21, 2014
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Covered Bridges NPM # 7 and shooting stars
Covered Bridges
There are fifteen Covered Bridges
in the state that I call home
One King and Three Queen Post
Eleven are Town LatticedPiles driven in stream beds
connect them with beams
Cover the rafters
they'll last quite awhileLooking quite barnish
fooled horses will go
cross troubled water
steal a kiss and go home
The Euharlee Covered Bridge, a wooden Town Lattaced bridge crossing Euharlee Creek in Euharlee, Georgia. The bridge was built after the raging creek swept away an old bridge on the property of Daniel Lowry. The collapse of the bridge killed one man. A new bridge was built in 1886 by Horace King's son Washington King and Johnathan H. Burke, it spans 138 feet. The lattice trusses consist of planks crisscrossing at 45- to 60-degree angles and are fastened with wooden pegs, or trunnels, at each intersection. Vehicle traffic finally stopped across the bridge in 1980 when a new two-lane bridge was built. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is open to foot traffic seven days a week. It's the closest Covered Bridge to our home, they have a great BBQ festival there each year in June.
EARTH DAY AND THE LYRIDS ARE COMING!!!
The 2014 Lyrid meteor shower will pepper the night on the evening of April 21 until before dawn April 22. The predawn hours are typically best – and April 22, Earth Day morning, is the peak this year. You might also want to try the evening hours this year though, because the light of the last quarter moon, rising at midnight may interfere.
Clouded out tonight? Or too much moonlight for your taste? You might see some Lyrid meteors on the night of April 22-23, too, especially since a thinner waning moon will be rising later on the morning of April 23, leaving more darkness for meteor watching.
Tonight will be my best chance, I think seeing a single meteor shooting across a moonlit sky is miraculous, so keep looking up, and if your up in the wee hours before dawn you can see Venus, turned Morning Star on the eastern horizon and Mars and Saturn on the western edge.
Thanks EarthSky News!
have a heavenly evening!
ILYM
Comments (21)
Every time you mention some cosmic event it rains with huge cloud cover and not even a full (let alone a quarter) moon can pierce the gloom. The wind is whipping all the sand and dirt from the winter roads into the air - which looked brown on my drive home! Maybe the sky will clear tomorrow and I'll catch a peek at the "falling stars"...
I know Val, I think I may be jinking us =/
Oh thank you Marsha. I shall try and get a glimpse of this event. I love it when you inform us of these things.
Love the poem Marsh. Very well put together.
Thanks Z!
We always get ugly cloud cover whenever there's supposed to be something awesome happening in the night sky
SOMEDAY I will catch a meteor shower!!
I know the feeling, I think I've missed all the meteor showers the last two years because of the clouds. But I keep on trying, you should too!
If I wake around 4, I will look out to see them. The covered bridges are a marvel, also.
did you wake up Gary? I bet the meteor showers are magnificent in Arizona <3
I take a late night/very early morn walk...so I will be watching the skies!
I love your poem! How wonderful to have so many covered bridges!
HUGS!!!
Thanks Mrs. Eve =))) I love hearing about your walks, I should do that too it would be good for me and the poopers! HUGS Back Atcha!!!!!
Did the meteors hit the covered bridge? Did you spy the meteors from the top of the covered bridge? Do tell!
Sail on... sail on!!!
I did not climb the covered bridge...but I did get up at 4:15am and took a gander at the sky, the only place there were no clouds was around the moon...I thought that was a good thing, even in the moonlight the brighter shooters would be plain to see, but the fates were against me and sent more clouds to cover even the moon, I'll look again tonight - but not from the top of the bridge, seems I'm afraid of heights in my old age =))))
Happy Earth day!
I like covered bridges too.
I was too tired last night (battling being sick) and went to bed early, so no meteor shower sightings were had by me.
Happy Earth Day to You also! Sorry you were sick, it was cloudy here so I might as well have gone to bed early too, at least I would be rested, you should try again tonight!
Marsha I woke up at midnight and stood in the window to see the stars. I saw a couple of real bright ones, but no shooting star or a meteor shower. Then I went to sleep and dreamed about a sky full of stars. That was kind of neat.
Sometimes, when I don't have to go to work the next day and there is a clear night for viewing one of the annual meteor showers I will set up a lawn chair and blanket in the yard and just lie there looking at the sky. Unfortunately all those things don't line up often enough.
lemon pie from Lemon Sister's Bakery
I too love covered bridges! I enjoy not only your poetry, but also the other interesting information that you include in your post.
I've been wanting to ask you if the girls in your profile picture are two of your daughters.
Thank you for your encouraging comments on my posts. I've been having trouble keeping up with writing a poem per day, commenting, replying, & all the things going on in my non-Xanga life! I decided to just go around to read & comment 1st, & then reply later.
Have a blessed Sunday -- last one in April!
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