“Bridging Time” — a monthly series featuring photos by Calvin Sneed — highlights steel truss and concrete arch bridges throughout the United States. During his travels, Calvin has taken thousands of photos of more than 1,150 bridges (mostly in the Southeast). He can be reached at douglassriverview@gmail.
com . This month’s featured bridge is the Rainbow Bridge in Lake Lure, North Carolina. "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.
I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in." This passage from the King James Version of the Book of Matthew, Chapter 25, Verse 35 could be the anthem that comes with the forever pet you might adopt from the local animal shelter.
It might be the hungry stray dog or cat you see stopping and standing along the side of the road one day bewildered and lost, looking for a friend. And did they ever become members of the family quickly! Today, a study shows that most Americans with dogs consider them family members, with 77% frequently talking to them as if they were people. But after years of faithful companionship, what do you do when that beloved member of your family passes on? "It's a different kind of loss," says Amy Wald, who volunteers on the grounds of the Flowering Bridge at Lake Lure, North Carolina.
"How would you remember pets?" she wondered. And then one day, she read a poem about the Rainbow Bridge. "There is a bridge connecting Heaven and Earth.
It's called the Rainbow Bridge .