White moths are on the wing.

Roseman Covered Bridge



Built in 1883 by Benton Jones, it is 107 feet in length and sits in its original location. Roseman was renovated in 1992 at a cost of $152,515. In Robert James Waller's novel The Bridges of Madison County and the movie of the same name, Roseman is the bridge Robert Kincaid seeks when he stops at Francesca Johnson's for directions; it is also where Francesca leaves her note inviting him to dinner.

Jessica's note...  Yeats -
The poem by William Butler Yeats that Francesca quotes in the novel — the line about the white moths on the wing — is titled "The Song of Wandering Aengus" and could serve as an extended metaphor for the book as a whole. It is about a wanderer who once hooked from a stream a silver trout that turned into a "glimmering girl," and now that he is old and finished with wandering he wants to find her again and spend his time until it is gone picking the silver and golden apples of the moon and sun. The themes of wandering, a chance discovery of the right "girl," wishing to spend time with...