Slow down, you move too fast

I finally finished 2021 in my mathematics blog! Just in time for ... ugh. Well, here's what you've missed there recently if you've missed it altogether:





So next on my roll? It's a bridge in Okemos, Michigan. They're tearing out and replacing two decades-old bridges and both bunny_hugger and I --- separately --- went to get pictures of them before their end.


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Before that, another of bunny_hugger's jigsaw puzzles. The ``Winter Cardinals'' puzzle has an irregular border, usually something that foils her puzzle-solving methods. This one didn't. Anyway, appreciate the photoshopping of other scenes on top of birds.



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Photograph of the targeted bridge from Wonch Park, located just to their west. (Ferguson Park is across the river and road, on the east). The green trestle is a pedestrian bridge they built ... oh ... six years ago or so. Sometime since I moved here.



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Checking things down at the river. February was finally a reasonably cold month and you can see the ice on the river, plus the dusting of fresh snow.



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Not sure what these sticks signify but they're something proposed.



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Wonch Park doesn't look like a lot of fun when it's covered in snow and slush, have to admit. Probably cleans up well for June.



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And now ... both car bridges are doomed, the one of particular interest is the one on the left, a ``camel-back'' bridge, a design once common in Michigan. This was one of the two remaining known examples of the camel-back design still in service. The car bridge on the right was built in 1960 to relieve traffic pressure on the original bridge.



Trivia: Hoppity Hooper was the last Jay Ward cartoon series that Gamma Productions of Mexico City worked on. Source: The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose, Keith Scott.


Currently Reading: NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff, David J Shayler, Colin Burgess.