infocus wrote:
Just beautiful as always Mike. Love your work. I have been interested in covered bridges since I saw the first one years ago, we don't have them in Australia. Do you know why they were covered, seems strange to me. If it is for shelter along the road surely they could be built any where on the road - why especially bridges??
originally, because the boards that were the roadbed would get slick and the horses could slip.
also, you may notice that almost all have some kind of windows or openings so the horses could see out and not get spooked,