A late thank you to my 7/5 #FineArtAmerica client from Shepherdstown, WV. for their purchase of a 26" x 18.5" print of "Burnside Bridge in Spring." I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it!!

At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/burnside-bridge-in-spring-lois-bryan.html

And at Fine Art America: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/burnside-bridge-in-spring-lois-bryan.html

#art #giftideas #civilwar #antietam #burnsidebridge #digitallyhandpainted #notai #LoisBryan

Hans Zimmer - You're So Cool

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Ever watch/listen to something when you were a small child and now can't remember exactly what it was? This photo reminds me of a scene from an '80s/'90s film (I would've viewed it around 1992-94 or so), where two pre-teen boys are walking around a very small arched pedestrian bridge on a cloudy day in what looks to be the English countryside(?) One of them is your average schoolboy (think Bastian Bux from The Neverending Story), and the other seems to be carrying a basketball-sized bright, glowing orb of some sort. I swear I remember the second boy casually hanging upside down by his legs from the bridge while chatting with the first. Maybe it was a kind of first meeting scene for the two of them, though it's hard to say. Anyway, this photo—while of a *much* larger bridge (theirs was about 30 feet/9 meters in length over a very small stream)—reminds me of that scene, and it's the only one I remember from the film. How I long to see it again 🎞️
🎶 "First Memory" - Shook 🎵
https://soundcloud.com/shookshookshook/first-memory

#archive #portland #oregon #pdx #pnw #photos #photography #mobilephotography #digitalphotography #iphone #shotoniphone #iphoneography #smartphoneography #fediverse #pixelfed #citylife #cityscape #bridges #burnsidebridge #memories #movies #films #oldfilms #shook
First Memory

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Bridgeless to #BetterBurnside Workshop #StrongTowns #PDX Monthly Meeting
Tues, Mar 11 6:00 - 7:45pm*
PSU Urban Center: Room 212 & Room 220
506 SW Mill St, #Portland. Enter at the main door facing the plaza.
*Social hour to follow* #pdxBikes
...exploring opportunities to improve West Burnside Street and neighboring areas during the #BurnsideBridge closure and beyond. ... from the river to I-405... transportation, placemaking, and economic development.

https://www.strongtownspdx.org/

Strong Towns PDX

Everyone has an opportunity to live a good life in a prospering place.

https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/inverted-y-design-approved-for-burnside-bridge-replacement-despite-public-opinion/

(luckily, I was one of those 12%, after falling in love with Rotterdam's Erasmusbrug while living there…)

#CommunityDesignAdvisoryGroup, 20 volunteers tasked with review and a final recommendation, decided not to choose between the public’s top 3 choices.

Instead recommended that commissioners approve the Inverted-Y design, favored by roughly 12% surveyed.

#BurnsideBridge replacement design #Multnomah Co #pdx #portland

While normally I'm supportive of the government spending a bit more to create infrastructure with inspiring designs, the new #BurnsideBridge is focused on allowing cars to drive over other cars, a function that is unworthy of soaring iconography.

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2024/08/editorial-valley-portlands-obsession-with-exceptionalism.html

Editorial valley: Portland’s obsession with exceptionalism

An advisory committee recommending a design for a Burnside Bridge replacement is pushing a unique design that's both more expensive and far less popular with survey respondents, the editorial board writes. In deciding which design to adopt, the Multnomah County board of commissioners should remember that there's nothing wrong with building a bridge that's functional, more affordable and common.

oregonlive

I don't know the best way to let #pedestrians and #bikes use the new #BurnsideBridge, but these wacky ramps are not it.

https://bikeportland.org/2024/08/15/new-burnside-bridge-wont-connect-to-eastbank-esplanade-389082

New Burnside Bridge won't connect to Eastbank Esplanade

Too expensive, too risky, say city and county leaders.

BikePortland