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Posts tagged with "Hardin"

Joe Page bridge, Hardin, at night

Sunday, 25. October 2009, 20:25:27

Joe Page Bridge, photography, Hardin, Illinois River ...

Joe Page Bridge.

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Joe Page Bridge, Hardin

Monday, 28. September 2009, 01:55:14

misadventure, Hardin, Illinois River, vertical lift bridge ...

Finally...

After many visits to Hardin, Illinois, I caught the Joe Page vertical lift bridge up. A barge has just passed underneath it.

Quite a sight!

Here's another shot from April in its lowered position.

It was a rather more eventful excursion than I wished - not long after taking this photograph, and driving down a remote country lane in pursuit of a natural area, the entire exhaust of the car broke away from the engine, hanging by the muffler and scraping away on the road with an appalling sound while the engine turned into a roar.

I stopped the car, and managed to unhook the muffler. No way could I repair or even carry the exhaust, so I abandoned it and drove home sounding like a flock of Harley-Davidsons! Fortunately, I made it home without problem. Ah well, more business for our local garage.

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Friday

Saturday, 11. April 2009, 03:26:05

flood, Hardin, Martha Argerich, Illinois River ...

I had a free day today, so I filled the CD changer in the car with six Martha Argerich solo piano recordings, loaded up the cameras and headed out up to Highway 100 in Illinois.

It was miserably wet and foggy day, and even driving up to the lookout point in Pere Marquette State Park provided little more than bare trees and fog hanging over the floodwaters from a very full Illinois River.

Nonetheless, it was a very relaxing drive on the nearly empty road, with lots of Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Ravel as accompaniment. I continued on to Hardin, crossing the river on the Joe Page Bridge. A lovely vertical lift bridge completed in 1931 - you can see the lift span in the photograph above. I've never seen it raised and today was not the day to hang around in Hardin waiting. Another time. But I stayed long enough to enjoy a Subway sandwich in the empty restaurant.

On my way home, this dead tree with flood waters behind it caught my eye. Something about those boughs collecting around the base as they fall away. High up, you can see a solitary bald eagle silhouetted against the white.