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Antarctican
05-05-2009, 04:55 PM
Artograph mentioned that she is familiar with the Mennonite area west of Toronto, so I said I'd dig up the shots I got several years ago of two of their carriages exiting the last covered bridge in Ontario (at West Montrose).

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7379/img2896prao3.jpg

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/4364/img2886pr2yy3.jpg

(They're a bit dark. If I can find the originals, I should try to do some post-processing in Photoshop)
Antarctican
05-05-2009, 05:01 PM
The bridge itself:

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/8113/dsc05239psrszl3.jpg

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/596/dsc05251psrsvj2.jpg
René
05-05-2009, 05:37 PM
Nice, are they like Amish but without the beards?
Antarctican
05-05-2009, 06:08 PM
Gee, I'm not sure! I just read about the Mennonites on Wikipedia, to see if I could answer that. It says the Amish split off from the Mennonites back in 1693, so there must be a lot of similarities between the two groups. And beards were mentioned in the Amish section, but not in the Mennonite section, so you could well be right.
Fox Paw
05-05-2009, 07:47 PM
Cool shots, Antarctican.
René
05-05-2009, 11:07 PM
Damn! I was trying to be funny! LOL
Antarctican
05-06-2009, 12:17 AM
http://www.foruminternationaltalk.com/forum/images/smilies/groan.gif Silly me!
Chiller
05-06-2009, 08:36 AM
Nicely done Jeanney. This bridge is on my hit list for a fall trip.

I was up in Elmira doing a delivery the other day, and a horse and buggy pulled in the drive way behind me. It was the coolest thing. :-)
kundalini
05-06-2009, 11:31 AM
Nice shots Anty.
Artograph
05-06-2009, 05:10 PM
Nice Anty!! I especially like the bridge alone!

I have a great cemetary to take Chiller to!! It's great....*I* can't do anything with it...but I'm sure *he* could take some great shots!!
MissMia
05-06-2009, 06:20 PM
I like the first shot! Neat captures Anty! That would be a great area for a meet up.
Antarctican
05-07-2009, 09:27 AM
It was pretty darn cold out that day, so I was surprised to see an 'open' carriage being used (like in the first shot) rather than the closed-in kind (like in the second shot). Hopefully they didn't have too far to go
boblybill
05-07-2009, 11:46 AM
These really nice Anty! I have never seen a covered bridge in person because in Colorado and TX they apparently never caught onto the craze that the eastern coast did. Very cool!
Rozari
05-17-2009, 09:11 PM
Nice shots. We have Mennonites here and they have a very strict dress code, but use modern conveniences. I'm not sure what their restrictions are.