Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for December 16, 2020

Unless it’s caused by a horse and rider with a pumpkin and no head.

And here comes Meemaw with her happy horse (see the heart above his head).

to be doubley pedantic… how does the snow for the sleigh runners get on the floor of the covered bridge? , and assuming it is magically there as drawn, with thick snow on the ground you wouldn’t hear the clip-clop. It does have a scenic appeal to it though :-)

Not too many people will ever get to hear that, since there isn’t exactly an overabundance of covered bridges outside of New England … at least, not that I’m aware of. I’m almost certain there are none of them out here on the Left Coast, and definitely none down here on the south end of it.

There is one near Nevada City!

Indian Covered Bridge festival

I know of several in Oregon.

There is no snow inside a covered bridge.

We have a couple in Wichita — on a foot bridge in a park and another for a small scale railroad.

But where are the bells? You know, the ones that go Jingle? As in:

Jingle bells, jingle bells,

Jingle all the way.

Oh! what fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh.

I always like the sound of a motorcycle exhaust going through a covered bridge. A bicycle hitting all those wooden planks is also good.

In Wolcott, VT is a rare example of a rail road covered bridge.

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: )

I’d love to hear that music, just once in my life……

The sound of hoofbeats would probably be drowned out by the screech of the sledrails on the bridge floor

Not sure why the horse is loving it. There would not be any snow inside a covered bridge to lubricate the runners.

IN DE OLE DAYS THE LOCALS PAID A MAN TO SHOVEL SNOW INSIDE THE BRIDGE FOR THE SLEIGHS WHEN EVERYONE SWITCHED THEIR BUGGIES OUT

It is great, isn’t it?

that would indeed be a nice sound to hear

We have many covered bridges in MI. I love the clip clop of horses too. We have a lot of Amish, so it is a familiar sound around here.

“The sound of hoofbeats echoing inside a wooden covered bridge is music to my ears!”

Of Course MeeMaw would have a horse and sleigh! (I’m so jealous!)

And I do love that sound, too. But . . . I don’t have a horse; and there hasn’t been enough accumulation of snow to make a 1 foot tall snowman in several years in my part of South Carolina, much less support a real one horse open sleigh.

However! New England and Virginia can keep this week’s snow storm for themselves!