gotdurt
01-04-2009, 03:41 PM
Joppa is a ghost town north of Bertram, and there are 2 bridges in the area. I've driven/ridden through a few times, but never stopped to photograph them, so when my buddy Wes and I rode through Joppa last Friday, I stopped to shoot the one by the church. They were built around 1907.
Note the cedar posts, obviously built using cedars from the area:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/gotdurt/DSC_0119.jpg
You can't tell from the photo, but the big oak on the left actually grew around the steel column:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/gotdurt/DSC_0124.jpg
The steel column that the tree grew around was like this one:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/gotdurt/DSC_0128.jpg
I may or may not have ridden across the bridge... depends on what the definition of "not" is ;-) Wes would've crossed it, I sure, but he couldn't fit his jugs past the barrier... no, he's not a tranny, he rides a beemer.
Note the cedar posts, obviously built using cedars from the area:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/gotdurt/DSC_0119.jpg
You can't tell from the photo, but the big oak on the left actually grew around the steel column:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/gotdurt/DSC_0124.jpg
The steel column that the tree grew around was like this one:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/gotdurt/DSC_0128.jpg
I may or may not have ridden across the bridge... depends on what the definition of "not" is ;-) Wes would've crossed it, I sure, but he couldn't fit his jugs past the barrier... no, he's not a tranny, he rides a beemer.