{"id":1133,"date":"2011-05-12T18:22:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T01:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2015-11-12T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T17:01:43","slug":"demise-of-a-favorite-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/demise-of-a-favorite-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Demise of a Favorite Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bark Shanty Bridge – Big Quilcene River: <\/strong>If\u00a0you’ve been reading these posts for a few years, you might recognize\u00a0this painting. Recently we hiked the same\u00a0trail under those same giant trees, the Lower Big Quil a few miles south of us. At just under the three mile mark, first one beautiful old bridge, then\u00a0Bark Shanty Flat with giant cedars and\u00a0Doug-firs, and around the bend to a very disheartening sight. Bark Shanty Bridge has been hit by not one, but two giant trees, and the far end is\u00a0crushed to pieces.\u00a0It’s cleared away and open to hikers only, but the deed is done and the bridge will soon be history.\u00a0The\u00a0Forest Service says it’s letting a contract this summer for a replacement, and if the new\u00a0bridge on the nearby Dungeness Trail\u00a0is any example, they’ll do a good job of\u00a0carefully replacing it with another hand-carved log span. BUT,\u00a0OUR bridge is soon to be gone – the one I used\u00a0as the model for\u00a0this painting. It had real character – a fish net nailed across the tread to improve traction, mossy handrails, notched logs for the cross beams. The Forest Service isn’t sure how old it is, but I’m guessing 1950’s at least – probably not WPA-age because wood just doesn’t last all that long up in those wet forests. As my painterly-life has gone on, this has happened more times than I can count, and I’m beginning to think it’s bad luck – or good luck, maybe, to\u00a0recognize something beautiful and interesting\u00a0– and instill some sort of painterly immortality upon it before it’s gone.<\/p>\n

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The Bark Shanty Bridge the other day. You can see where the trees hit it on the far side, and the splintered spire of the second tree’s base. Evidently during a winter’s high water, the upper\u00a0sections of both trees then washed back downstream and lodged under the bridge.<\/p>\n

We still have prints available of this painting. Here they are on the main website.
\nOr, you can Email us for details.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading this week.
\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n

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Click<\/a> here to check out what Nancy’s currently working on with her photography. I think she’s cooking up a blog post of this too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bark Shanty Bridge – Big Quilcene River: If\u00a0you’ve been reading these posts for a few years, you might recognize\u00a0this painting. Recently we hiked the same\u00a0trail under those same giant trees, the Lower Big Quil a few miles south of us. At just under the three mile mark, first one beautiful old bridge, then\u00a0Bark Shanty Flat … Continue reading Demise of a Favorite Bridge<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,82,86,113,115],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-easel-paintings","tag-olympic","tag-parks","tag-streams","tag-trails"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5733,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}