Beautiful Bridge

Took a walk Tuesday afternoon to the 1st St bridge over the Big Thompson river. It's a beautiful bridge, built in 2001, with interesting design features and some gorgeous mosaics of animals who inhabit the area. The mosaics are only fully visible from the pedestrian parts of the bridge, most drivers probably don't notice them.

This is a view of the bridge from the south side, taken from the city rec trail which runs along the river (and under the bridge) at this point. The small circles are representations of the phases of the moon, done in red and blue mosaic tile.

Closeup of the mosaic design (repeated 3 times on each outside wall) seen in the picture above.

View of the pedestrian walkway, looking east

View from the bridge, looking north

View from the rec trail, looking south

And here are pictures of the wonderful mosaic pictures of some local residents:

trout


raccoons


magpies?


elk


an egret


cougars

West Side of Town

We took a walk today that took us to the west side of town. It was a beautiful Spring afternoon, warm and quite breezy.


Saw these buds...

on a tree near this drainage area from Lake Loveland.



We also walked past the old school admin building (before that, the hospital) which has been renovated into Sr housing. This picture shows the front of the building.


And this is a view of the back. It looks very nice. A parking garage, just outside the picture to the left, is still under construction. The windows are west facing.


Western view, this picture was taken about a block further south, but it is roughly the view from the new Sr housing.