Watersideplaces lives

 I love creeks and the trees that border them.  Times have been hard lately.  The Clean Water Act has been rolled back so that degradation in water quality is real and ugly.  The future has a dark look to it.  I try to keep a good attitude.  The restrictions here for Bloggers are tough.  The operators limit the photographs that can be posted.  The sizes of the photographs are added up to a number.  There is a number that limits cumulative blog posts.  One way to exceed that number is to send in money.  There is not much more that an author can do.  I am not giving up.  This blog will go on.  I don't know how it will.  With the passage of time one learns new things.

Kentucky - Jefferson County

Iroquois Park, Louisville, KY

Donald Vish was a Louisville attorney and avid photographer.  He was known for his photographs of the Kentucky Derby.  He took many photographs in Olmsted parks and other parks in the Louisville parks system.  His views of the Louisville parks gave people a new perspective of the scenes of the Louisville parks.  The year 2023 was the last year of his life.  Now it is left to others to see the beauty of the Louisville area in a similar way. 

Kentucky - Jefferson County

 

Fungi on fallen tree

Sometimes one discovers something surprising.  Look at the variety of colors here, the surprising rich amount of colors.  This was seen in the woods in Iroquois Park, an Olmsted Park. 

Kentucky - Jefferson County

The Winter Woods Spectacular

The Winter Woods Spectacular is a community walk event with a presentation of lights in a wooded area in Iroquois Park.  Funds gathered from the event benefit the Parks Alliance of  Louisville. 

Kentucky - Nelson County

Nelson County, Kentucky

What seems eternal?  It may be that limestone outcrops in Kentucky have changed little in thousands of years.  The water resources of Kentucky have supplied clean water for most of the time that Kentucky has been inhabited. Clean water is a basic for human health.  Preserving Kentucky's water resources is a worthwhile pursuit.   

Kentucky - Louisville

 

World War II Era Trainer Aircraft BowmanFest October 2022

The 2022 BowmanFest celebrated one hundred years of flying at Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky. Bowman Field is one of the oldest continually operating towered airports in North America. The aircraft in the image is a T-6G.

Massachusetts - Stockbridge

 

It was assumed that the old growth forests of Massachusetts were erased by the expansion into the far reaches of Massachusetts.  Bob Leverett noticed some small areas that had trees that seemed to fit the look of old growth trees. Others have checked and the trees have turned out to be old growth trees. These trees are key living things in battling climate change.  Proforestation seeks to preserve the champions at carbon accumulation.  Data has shown that the trees of great age accumulate more carbon.  The Blanton Forest in Harlan County, Kentucky was a location where old growth trees went unnoticed.  In more recent times the stock of old growth trees was discovered and estimated.