It's sort of like a Mind Freak magician trick, but it's not an illusion. (This photo is from 2009) It's been hot... 2011, has been a record breaking hot year. 111+degrees Fahrenheit. Wait till you see my garden photos!
This is a sculpture by Blackbear Bozin entitled, "Keeper of the Plains." This is about the location of where I made the snapshots of the Arkansas river (above.) This photo was created in 2009. It's one of the sculptures in Kansas that is an icon of the city.
This is the view of what the fish see when there is water in the Arkansas river.
This is a little further back showing you that the river really isn't that deep, but it would be deep enough to cover the top of my head by a few feet. (I'm over 6 feet tall.) I think that this is an very unique perspective of the sculpture that I have never seen before. It's almost like seeing it like it was new again.
From a distance things sometimes appear smaller than they actually are. I suppose Wichita, does not have to worry about the invasive Asian carp that is invading American waterways.
Right here, I feel like that NRA bible guy spokesperson who was being chased by Yul Brynner in the mid 1950's Cecil B. DeMille flick.
There are a lot of plants that sprang from the river after the water went on vacation. I am not sure what they are, but the city has (what few) employees (that they have not let go) out spraying chemicals to defoliate. When the water comes back they won't have to worry about the invasive Asian carp in Tulsa, Oklahoma either.
If anybody was wanting to know what grows well in dry river beds, some of these photos may help you if you know what you are looking at. (Zone 6a, semi wet-dry sand and silt growing medium.)
I am surprised that sand and gravel companies are not down here raiding the river bottom.
This is a a mini pond in the river that has guppies and mosquito larvae. I think this is a red dragonfly/damselfly.
This is about a mile up river bed, and the plants here started to look more desert-like.
It's seemed more dry up here than down by the Bozin statue.
The sand is starting to bleach out.
"Oh look," the Kansas state flower growing amongst the weeds. This could be symbolic of something.
There's an old Native American story about how the earth was formed on the back of a turtle. It's a long story of Genesis probably created long before the Epic of Gilgamesh was rolled out. ~Mother Earth falls from the sky and is drowning in a giant ocean. A giant turtle saves Mother Earth and the turtle pulls up soil from the ocean floor so that Mother Earth has something to sustain her self with, and grow things. Eventually, the Earth is formed and it rides upon the back of a sleeping giant turtle. Everything is okay until the land becomes too overpopulated with people. Digging up the earth, trashing the lands and waters and cutting down the trees. People make the giant turtle stir in his sleep. The earth shakes, the wind blows harder, and the water sloshes around. Subsequently, when the stress from the heat and weight of the world is too much to bare, the turtle will flip over to cool his back.
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