Golden autumn along Bull Creek Greenbelt
October 28, 2010
As October draws to a close, I thought I’d share a few images of Bull Creek in west Austin on a recent golden morning.
Limestone and water. Central Texas was, eons ago, a shallow sea. The limestone is what remains of the sea creatures that once inhabited this place.
We think of things like seas and rock as permanent, don’t we? But they are ultimately as ephemeral as we.
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Looks like a great place to relax & contemplate whatever is on your mind. Thanks for sharing.
Wow…your Cowpen Daisy is lusher than ours’ is! Nice place to reflect. I hope the fall weather I *keep trying* to send you down there will finally stick!
pleasantly dreamy feeling post. you always make austin look wonderful.
A simple… but simply beautiful post!
Sometimes stone can be shockingly ephemeral… a couple years ago, during a massive amount of rain, the huge shelf of rock forming my favorite waterfall in the park next to where I grew up crumbled and slid away, leaving the falls as more of a water slide.
That is so pretty!
During this great flood of 93, a canyon was created instantly when they released the water of Tuttle Creek Lake into the spillway, revealing lots of fossils! I got to search the newly created canyon for fossils when I lived there! Here’s a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuttle_Creek_Lake
Nothing seems permanent. Time has a way of dispersing things. Only a memory can sometimes bring it back momentarily.
What a beautiful spot!
The seas of yellow flowers around Austin right now always signal the real start of fall to me. I just love them!
Very pretty images of Bull Creek. It looks like a great place to visit or take a stroll.
You captured the essence of the Creek in such beautiful light. I love looking at all the layers of rock accumulated over the ages and imagining how things might have been different so long ago.
Beautiful photos! It must have been a very nice trip