{"id":2936,"date":"2017-06-05T18:41:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T23:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostpineslife.com\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2017-06-05T18:41:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T23:41:29","slug":"piney-creek-bastrop-tx-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostpineslife.com\/?p=2936","title":{"rendered":"Piney Creek, Bastrop, TX–Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piney Creek<\/span><\/h2>\n

A thick line of pines and oaks marks the steep bank of Piney Creek; \u00a0below lies the running stream in its sandy bed shaded by giant cottonwoods and old pines. \u00a0Bird songs mingle with the burble of water flowing over shining stones. \u00a0Dagonflies and mayflies catch the dappled light and sparkle while tadpoles and minnows dart about in dark pools. \u00a0It’s beautiful and wild in the creek bottom.\u00a0However, in the midst of the natural beauty, there is an intrusion of manmade objects–relics of the floods of last year and years before.<\/p>\n

Piney Creek floods its banks once or twice a year. \u00a0When the creek floods, it rises quickly and sweeps up every thing that isn’t tied down from the yards of neighbors upstream. \u00a0Boats, chairs, toys, and trash ride the rapids, bobbing down the creek, past Little Piney, and on to the Colorado River–that is unless they get trapped along the way. \u00a0Deep in the creek bottom below Little Piney lies such a trap. \u00a0It is an island of objects snatched by trees, held by vines, and partially buried in mud–a \u00a0disturbing history of things lost and not found.<\/p>\n

Today, Ken and I visited the creek in all it’s spring beauty, and there, as usual, lay the boat, the toy kitchen, the raft, and more tangled\u00a0with vines and pinned by young trees growing through and around. \u00a0Other objects lay on the ground as if just dropped from the bank. \u00a0Usually, I complain about the trash, and plan neighborhood clean up efforts that I know will never happen. \u00a0Today, \u00a0I decided to look at the objects as relics, pieces of a story, and photographed them. \u00a0We will pick up some of the small things, one piece at a time, one walk at a time and dispose of them properly, and maybe drag some of the larger things up with a rope. \u00a0 What remains will wash away in another flood only to be replaced by more items carelessly left untied upstream,<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the things we saw in the bed of Piney Creek.<\/p>\n

Lost Possessions<\/h2>\n
\"Boat\" <\/a>
Boat <\/div> <\/div>
\"Calculator\" <\/a>
Calculator <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Raft\" <\/a>
Raft <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Training <\/a>
Training Wheels <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Plastic <\/a>
Plastic Pot <\/div> <\/div>
\"General <\/a>
General garbage <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

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\"Piney
Piney Creek-Boat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tangles and Roots<\/h2>\n
\"Roots <\/a>
Roots and tangles, Piney Creek <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Roots <\/a>
Roots and tangles, Piney Creek <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Roots <\/a>
Roots and tangles, Piney Creek <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Roots <\/a>
Roots and tangles, Piney Creek <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Roots <\/a>
Roots and tangles, Piney Creek <\/div> <\/div>
\"Roots <\/a>
Roots and tangles, Piney Creek <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Roots <\/a>
Roots and tangles, Piney Creek <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Roots <\/a>
Roots and tangles, Piney Creek <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Roots <\/a>
Roots and tangles, Piney Creek <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

An Accidental Ostrich and a Spooky Doll?<\/h2>\n
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Piney Creek, Ostrich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Piney Creek, Hanging Doll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0Colors and Textures<\/h2>\n
\"Piney <\/a>
Piney Creek, Colors and Textures <\/div> <\/div>
\"Piney <\/a>
Piney Creek, Colors and Textures <\/div> <\/div>
\"Piney <\/a>
Piney Creek, Colors and Textures <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Piney <\/a>
Piney Creek, Colors and Textures <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

The Creek<\/h2>\n
\"Piney
Piney Creek, Bastrop, TX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Piney
Piney Creek, Bastrop, TX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Piney
Piney Creek, Bastrop, TX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0A Tree and a Tunnel<\/h2>\n
\"\"

\"Piney Piney Creek, Bastrop, TX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Flowers and a Mayfly<\/h2>\n
\"Piney
Brown-eyed Susans on the bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Piney
Mayfly on the Bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Piney Creek Part II–Preview<\/h2>\n

My next post will be photos of the wide open part of Piney Creek. \u00a0Here’s a preview.<\/p>\n

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Piney Creek A thick line of pines and oaks marks the steep bank of Piney Creek; \u00a0below lies the running stream in its sandy bed shaded by giant cottonwoods and old pines. \u00a0Bird songs mingle with the burble of water flowing over shining stones. \u00a0Dagonflies and mayflies catch the dappled light and sparkle while tadpolesContinue reading<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,41],"tags":[9,431,435,436,6,385,432,434,433],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bastrop-lost-pines-nature","category-lost-pines-life","tag-bastrop","tag-bastroptx","tag-creeks","tag-creeks-and-trash","tag-lost-pines","tag-piney-creek","tag-texas-creeks","tag-texas-flooding","tag-texas-waterways"],"yoast_head":"\nPiney Creek, Bastrop, TX-Part I - 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