more bridge

Here's more about the bridge: a toll of 25 cents was charged the year it opened; it cost $2.5 million to build in 1929-30. "Today the bridge is still considered the world’s longest concrete multiple-arch bridge," says wikipedia. Behind it is the Wright's Ferry Bridge opened in 1972.

river not high

Although weather reports warned of flooding, I did not see a high Susquehanna River when I drove there today. I did see a rainbow over a side street and railroad crossing in Columbia, Pa. Milton ran inteference on the run to and across the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge built for old Route 30 (Lincoln Highway) in 1930.

palindromic date

I don't normally want the p-a-l-i-n series of letters to show up in my life. But here they refer to something that reads the same forwards as backwards--a palindrome, such as "Madam, I'm Adam."

I just learned the word can refer to numbers, too. Jan 2 was one, 01/02/2010. Next year Nov. 2, 2011, will be one. Before one in the year 2001 there had been none since the year 1380.

And speaking of series of letters, this appeared in a word puzzle in England: what is HIJKLMNO? You'll never get it. It's water! Get it? The letters "H" to "O." H2O.