Bridges

"What better job in the all the world than build a bridge? Bring land over water. Bring worlds together"
~ John Patterson (The Ghost and the Darkness)

New York City, NY

 Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) said of the unadorned steel structure:
"The George Washington Bridge over the Hudson is the most beautiful bridge in the world. Made of cables and steel beams, it gleams in the sky like a reversed arch. It is blessed. It is the only seat of grace in the disordered city. It is painted an aluminum color and, between water and sky, you see nothing but the bent cord supported by two steel towers. When your car moves up the ramp the two towers rise so high that it brings you happiness; their structure is so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh. The car reaches an unexpectedly wide apron; the second tower is very far away; innumerable vertical cables, gleaming against the sky, are suspended from the magisterial curve which swings down and then up. The rose-colored towers of New York appear, a vision whose harshness is mitigated by distance."





San Francisco, CA

It's just mind-boggling to me that they built the Golden Gate Bridge in two or three years and even more mind numbing is you spend a year painting the bridge and you  have to start over again.  It's never ending.

As Brent Allen quoted, "There is nothing like it in the world as far as the swim goes. The ebb tide is like a river in the middle of San Francisco Bay and it pulls you off course toward the Golden Gate Bridge."

blast from the past...

babloo.... HA HA HA! I had completely forgotten about these pictures...

  

  

and of course

  

  

Winter

Winter... a time for festivals and food and the warmer the better, the cozy sweaters and coats to cover you up, the colorful scarfs and mufflers keeping you warm... wonderful time of the year around the world.  Someone truly said, "if it weren't for winter the spring would not have been pleasant"

Winters in Bangalore has its own charm; the bright blue skies and tonnes of flowers that you see around you... be it on the streets, that small chai shop on the corner or the temples by the streets. But the most amazing experience is the the cool breeze that keeps blowing and the not so very hot sun embracing you, Aaah! You want to be by the balcony all day long.

Quite the opposite being in Boston after being hit by a blizzard the experience is mesmerizing. You walk out of the balcony on a chilly morning and you see clear blue skies and the entire city in front of you covered in a blanket of white soft cotton the sun beaming down and the very next minute you realize that you have started following squirrel trails left on the snow. And while you experience this nothing to beat the piping hot glass of coffee that cools down to the perfect temperature.