{"id":11058,"date":"2022-11-21T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2022-11-22T04:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:07:31","slug":"fall-on-the-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=11058","title":{"rendered":"Fall on the Bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Misty Sunrise on that Bend in Buffalo Bayou<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And the Benefits of Wildness in the City<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nov. 21, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a beautiful misty morning on Buffalo Bayou in Houston\u2019s Memorial Park. Technically it was fall but our seasons are not obvious in Houston. Unless it\u2019s hurricane season or an ice storm perhaps. Definitely winter if there\u2019s ice hanging from the drooping telephone wires and people are trapped in their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n

Perhaps we should name our seasons after what actually happens, as the Egyptians did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We were traipsing through the forbidden woods<\/a> just after dawn, talking too much probably, headed towards the high bank overlooking that bend in the river we\u2019ve been documenting throughout the seasons<\/a> for over eight years now. Jim Olive, our boss photographer,<\/a> was not available so the assistant photog was leading the way down the shadowy dirt path, accompanied by a backup assistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big woods were forbidden, still, because the private conservancy that manages our public park decided several years ago for dubious reasons that the paths through these lovely woods were closed<\/a>, throwing up threatening signs, wire fencing, and piles of cut tree trunks and branches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In rebellious response, someone recently had blocked out the \u201cNot\u201d on the \u201cDo Not Enter\u201d sign. The simple path, as always, was well maintained by anonymous volunteers and well used by walkers, runners, and other creatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the rest of this post.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Altered sign attached to beaten down wire fencing blocking the path into the bayou woods on the southeast side of Houston\u2019s Memorial Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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