Big Creek runs alongside my property. When there's water in it, at least. With the drought this summer, it's completely dried up. When Buster and I woke up this morning, it was pretty foggy and I had a notion to take the camera along with me. So here's a photo essay of our walk, and the dried-up creek.
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| My backyard. |
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| The bridge near my house, looking upstream/north. |
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| Downstream/south. |
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| Field along the road on the other side of the creek. |
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| Looking south from a bridge south of my house. The creek takes a big bend just beyond here and loops back around to town. |
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| Looking north. Can you see it? No, not Buster's nose. |
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| Here's a closer look. A whitetail doe, checking us out. There were at least four more that came out of the trees to the right, and they all ran upstream. |
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| From the walking bridge at the park a few blocks up the street from my house, looking south/upstream. |
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| And looking north, toward the 10th Street bridge. |
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| Squirrel! |
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| And there it is. |
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| The dock in the park between the two bridges. |
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I believe this is Fourpoint evening primrose, growing along the bank.
(Source: Roadside Wildflowers of the Southern Great Plains, Freeman & Schofield) |
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| Not sure what this is, but I like the color it turns in the fall. |
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| From the 10th Street bridge, looking south to the walking bridge. |
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| And looking north toward the railroad bridge. |
At some point soon, as long as the creek remains dry, I'm going to take Buster on a hike along the creek bed. I did this a few years ago with Nipper, and it took us more than two hours to get from my house to the walking bridge! Still wish I'd taken a camera that time. So maybe when the days are a bit cooler and the vegetation has died back some, we'll do that. And I'll take the camera this time, because there's some cool things along this creek.
