Spring on the Bayou Bend

Temporary Photo While We Wait for the Pro

April 23, 2021

Well, spring has sprung, and we were getting impatient looking at a bare, wintry photo of that Bend in the Bayou taken in early March. Our devoted and generous photographer Jim Olive, a native Houstonian, has been transplanted as an invasive to the California desert, where he has adapted by taking beautiful photos of local cacti and flora.

Jim is a sought-after commercial photographer, as well as a naturalist who can name virtually every tree and plant in Latin as well as identify bird songs, eggs, and nests, animal scat, tracks, etc. He is also the founder and executive director of the Christmas Bay Foundation as well as the photographer for The Book of Texas Bays, written by environmental attorney and poet Jim Blackburn.

Photographer Jim promises he will be flying through soon. But in the meantime the impatient backup photographer climbed over the fences and followed the well-used dirt path out to the forbidden bank of the bayou in our public Memorial Park. There to document the greenery flowering along one of the last relatively natural, historic stretches of Buffalo Bayou.

So here is the temporary photo until Jim lands here. Taken later in the afternoon, around 6 pm, with the poor excuse that since Jim always shoots the bend just at dawn, why not something different.

See the whole series of that Bend in the River starting in the spring of 2014.

SC

That bend in Buffalo Bayou, taken from the same high bank in Memorial Park, looking downstream with the River Oaks Country Club on the right. Photo by SC on April 21, 2021

One thought on “Spring on the Bayou Bend”

  1. Jim Olive says:

    Well, I, for one, think Susan did a terrific shot of BB and the afternoon sun lights up the ‘right’ bank quite well. We’ll get another perspywith morning light when I arrive mid-May. Until then, I think Susan is doing quite well on her own, don’t y’all?

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