101. TIMER BRIDGE

Donald Hazen Brown Archive By Don Brown


2008 OUTER BANKS, NC It was a windy, early, November day. I had driven to the northern end of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Corrella Heritage Park was my destination. In the 19th century it was a hunting lodge for the elite to The timber, I was told, came from Queens Virginia Oaks, which are pictured in the painting; a shorter, more twisted oak than the straight, tall, giant oaks we are accustomed to seeing in the northeast. It is helpful to remain aware that often there are a variety of ways to use something, availing us of multiple possibilities. In this painting, timbers form the archers and supports that steel normally would accomplish. So too there are often times in which our lives can be used in various and sundry ways to accomplish good. Cultivating the multiple uses of our gifts and graces often provides unsuspecting surprises and possibilities to our lives. gather for duck hunting. My meanderings about the park took me over this unusual footbridge. The construction of the bridge intrigued me. Unlike the steel girders that make up so many of the bridges today, this bridge was built entirely of native timber.

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