Unbuilding the Grace and Pearman Bridges


For Sparky and myself, curiosity drives passion which in turn fuels our life's engine. Our passion was capturing the story of both unbuilding the Grace (1929 - 2007) and Pearman (1966 - 2007) Bridges and discovering the unbuilders. It takes a lot of passion to track a project from July 2005 until April 2007 - rain, shine, hurricanes or moving to Singapore. We discovered the joy of discovery learning. Ken Canty opened the front door for us - then Steve Testa, Ponch Billingsley and Mickey Rogers opened many side doors. Below are the highlights of what we discovered, who we met and what we learned.

And a reminder from T.S. Eliot (East Coker from the Four Quartets)

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.

December 29, 2006:Another round at MacRitchie Reservoir

This was an interesting adventure after Wednesday's balancing act with camera, tripod and umbrella. I took a different path today and found new colors.

But first - the serious stuff - building in Singapore. This is actually the end of my walk - but shows building of some new structures near my busstop. First - walking over the pedestrian walkway to get to the other side of the street - where my busstop is.

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Looking west

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Looking east

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And my busstop

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Now for today's fun photos. I found a number of some sort of black orb-weaving spider

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another view

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and another view

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Then a small butterfly decided to take up temporary residence on a leaf. Here is a rather plain brown butterfly

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So down I went and here is a very nicely colored eye

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Another black orb-weaver

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And an multi-colored butterfly

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Another black spider - but with a horizontal web - and much more cooperative

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A closer view

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And some sort of orange insect climbing

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An ant walking around a leaf

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and climbing up a stalk

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Our brown butterfly with the aqua eyes

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And suddenly, a dragonfly with aqua eyes

From the top

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White butterfly

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An interesting lizard

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And a friendly Nephila

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The ventral side

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Without flash

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From the side

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Another interesting butterfly

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And here are some red ants

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and a few more red ants

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And a family monkies

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Here is a turtle swimming

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a closer view

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Here is a dragonfly with reflection in the water

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This little guy decided to have some lunch

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and this guy was just looking

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shile the mom was protecting her new baby from a crazy photographer

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Well, the baby is not so afraid now

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and this little guy is hypnotized by the clicks of my camera

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Then a very interesting purple winged butterfly

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Another view

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and another lizard

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C. Frank Starmer

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