{"id":7074,"date":"2019-04-30T00:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T05:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2019-04-30T00:16:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T05:16:03","slug":"spring-on-buffalo-bayou-with-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7074","title":{"rendered":"Spring on Buffalo Bayou with Jim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Visit to Document That Bend in the River<\/h3>\n

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April 29, 2019<\/p>\n

Photographer Jim Olive<\/a> was back in town just in time to take some beautiful shots of a springtime morning on that bend in Buffalo Bayou. For almost five years now we\u2019ve been meeting in Memorial Park<\/a> and walking across the dewy grass, dodging bicyclists spinning round the paved Picnic Loop, to document the sun rising over the trees from the same high bank on the bayou<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s changed some over the years, with major floods taking down some of the trees and the high banks sloughing down<\/a>, only to stabilize and regrow, as is the continuous pattern. But the bayou through here is remarkably stable in its directional path. Lined with ancient sandstone on its sides and bottom, the 18,000-year-old bayou flowing past Memorial Park and the Hogg Bird Sanctuary<\/a> further downstream has been following essentially the same route for at least a hundred years \u2013 based on the earliest topographic maps we have. And probably for a lot longer than that.<\/p>\n

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Spring again! That bend in the bayou, looking downstream early in the morning of April 26, 2019. Jim Olive was back in town to continue our series documenting this same spot through time. Photo by Jim.<\/p><\/div>\n

On this Friday morning the picnic grounds were still lightly littered with the colorful remains of cascarones<\/a>, <\/em>dyed Easter eggs filled with confetti and cracked over someone\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

On our way into and through the woods, we paused to consider the massive, decaying pine still somehow standing tall next to the dirt path, its headless corpse rising high into the blue sky.<\/p>\n

The photographer went to work while the assistant, kicking aside a loose puffball mushroom, focused anxiously on glimpses of heavy machinery parked near ominous orange netting strung up behind the trees and vegetation on the edge of the country club golf course across the water. Ugly, foolish, and costly plans, with the potential to damage parkland as well as private property, are in the works for the banks there. We\u2019ll have more about that eventually.<\/p>\n

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Looking upstream on that bend in the bayou, standing on a high bank in Memorial Park. Photo by Jim on April 26, 2019<\/p><\/div>\n

And then suddenly a huge flock of large gray-and-white hawk-like birds took the sky, circling and circling high, possibly disturbed by groundskeepers fertilizing and watering the golf course. Even Jim, a naturalist who knows everything, even in Latin, couldn\u2019t identify them.<\/p>\n

Click here to see the entire series<\/a> documenting A Bend in the River.<\/p>\n

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A flock of large gray-and-white hawk-like birds flew up from the golf course across the way and circled overhead before moving on. Photo by Jim.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Visit to Document That Bend in the River   April 29, 2019 Photographer Jim Olive was back in town just in time to take some beautiful shots of a springtime morning on that bend in Buffalo Bayou. For almost five years now we\u2019ve been meeting in Memorial Park and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7080,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions\/7080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}