A ride in the Country

After taking my dad out to eat at Slicks Ivy Stone in Bedford County we decided to take a little ride in the country. We headed West on 869 which goes from Osterburg to Pavia and eventually to Blue Knob. We encountered the Bowser Covered Bridge.
This bridge is a Burr Truss bridge with horizontal bracing at truss top level. It spans Bob's Creek, just west of Route 869, about 1.5 miles northwest of Osterburg. Bypassed by a steel and concrete bridge in 1973, it is now closed with a cable across the entrance. County owned.

It has vertical boards on the lower 1/3rd of the bridge. It sits on stone and mortar abutments.
It is 90 feet long and 12 1/2 feet wide.

On the other side of the bridge Bob's Creek lazily flowed along.

We came upon this old building which my dad says was a grist mill. Grist mill's were powered by a water wheels and were used to grind corn and whole grains which could be made into bread. If this mill had a wheel I could not see it from this view. But I thought it was an interesting site.

Check out the link for grist mills on the right.



We ended up in dry run and I snapped a shot of one of our favorite deer.

To end my day I was able to get this photo of a female hummingbird scoping out Dad's Nicotiana.

Oh sing unto the Lord a new song;
for he hath done marvelous things
Psm.98:1
To God be the Glory!