Ken (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shadowplay2) wrote,@ 2006-08-14 20:16:00 |
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water
Things are going pretty well out on the project site. The river banks I saw when they were bare mud 11 years ago are now covered by a thriving floodplain forest of 30-foot tall cottonwoods and willows. The cicadas are deafening, and the river... on average about 35-feet wide and four feet deep now, at low water... looks great. Dragonflies skim over the water, cricket frogs leap along the banks. The whole thing looks and feels like a southern swamp in the 88-degree heat, which is what passes for a cold front here in August. It was rendered surreal by the occasional airplane going right over us at treetop height, including an F-111, a C-130, and a 707.
Four of us went into St. Louis for dinner on the Delmar Loop, just returned. Tomorrow I'm back on the road, the rest of the crew stays a few more days.
Things are going pretty well out on the project site. The river banks I saw when they were bare mud 11 years ago are now covered by a thriving floodplain forest of 30-foot tall cottonwoods and willows. The cicadas are deafening, and the river... on average about 35-feet wide and four feet deep now, at low water... looks great. Dragonflies skim over the water, cricket frogs leap along the banks. The whole thing looks and feels like a southern swamp in the 88-degree heat, which is what passes for a cold front here in August. It was rendered surreal by the occasional airplane going right over us at treetop height, including an F-111, a C-130, and a 707.
Four of us went into St. Louis for dinner on the Delmar Loop, just returned. Tomorrow I'm back on the road, the rest of the crew stays a few more days.
