this WAS Rye bridge, Mama took these photos in 2003, I wasn't born then, but Mama knew how to time travel me back to when she took these photos.
Mama enjoyed the walking along the river while Daddy flew his electric plane with his friends. they flew in a huge cow pasture that his club used for free with permission. Mama took her EasyShare Kodak, 3 MP camera and for hours wandered in nature taking photos.
It is all gone now, bulldozed, including the bridge that Mama's mama used to jump off of when she was a teen in 1938, the bridge had been there since 1886, the village of Rye.
Developers tore down the bridge and bulldozed all of it, trees and paths and pastures and put a 4-lane highway through it, and a huge bridge.
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| Baby Long Horn |
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| Mama Longhorn |
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Daddy Longhorn |
The church Mama and Daddy went to was 10 miles from home. In fact the Church was passed by mama when she went for a ride with her cousin to her cousin's new house.
Instead of pastures and trees and Baby Longhorn and his parents and all their herds, she found this.
each of the four corners were crammed with buildings. The Long horns that lived on the top left in pasture were gone, and the other four corners were swamps and trees and pastures were DEVELOPED.
Above is now the road that goes to the Fort Hamer Bridge, which is really close to the new Rye Bridge. All the beautiful nature at the beginning is now gone.
We are sad for the Nature that is not nature anymore.
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| every small tributary they put as many houses as they could fit to make it country club living on waterfront. Ha on the waterfront. |
19 comments:
This is how it is getting everywhere. Some cities are actually building overpasses for the animals to migrate because they have developed into their migration paths. Man will not be happy until every square inch of every forest and swamp is developed. And when this happens, man's time will be coming to an end because of no oxygen from the rainforest.
It is sad isn't it. Our little tow has been told by our government that we have to have 7000 new homes - so much of our surrounding countryside will disappear and they are already building in places that routinely flood! Why? Swamps are swampy for a reason. And no one seems to ge building additional infrastructure (like sewage processing) for all those extra humans the homes will have. Good to see that you got to time trsvel to it tho Beau. Soon that's all any of us will be able to do.
same here... it's all bulldozed, the pond and the place of the heron... on one hand we have to pay for their green ideas and on the other they give a monkeys f*rt on nature when the money smiles... the ponds are now construction sites sigh...
This is such a sad Nature Friday post. We hope the handsome longhorns found a good new home.
Hari OM
This is a sad fact the world over, Beau and Mum... we are a hypocritical race, declaring a love of nature yet so ready to destroy it and attempt to recreate the feeling with our own ponds and puddles. So glad Mum had these photos in her 'time machine'... hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx
That is so sad. That's how the neighborhood I grew up in is now. When I was growing up there was a wooded area across the road and now it's all been cut down and full of houses.
It is sad to loose all these nature areas, habitat and homes for the wildlife and green space for the humans. The Longhorns are handsome. It is nice to see you Beau, time traveling with your Mama. HUGS, have a happy day!
We have not treated our only home well, and we continue to do harm to her. The evidence of our destruction is clear day in and day out and yet we do nothing ... Mother Earth has begun to fight back, ultimately she will win.
It's sad when so much is lost in the name of progress. I loved seeing that baby Longhorn, have never seen one before, even in a picture.
I always wonder how much land is under concrete and asphalt...and have wandered that since I was in my teens.
Beau
How lucky are you to have a Mom who can take you into the magic world of time travel.
Hugs cecilia
Such a pretty spot that they took away. Oh my, it is sad that all of those four corners are now crammed with buildings. That does look like a lot of houses in that area.
What a lovely spot that was. Shame on developers and their ongoing destruction of all things beautiful!
Woofs,
Ollie
I wish da momma could time travel me back to Abilene, Texas 1983. It's probably best I don't see the way it looks now; same as my hometown.
This makes me so sad. Like that Joni Mitchell song, "Yellow Taxi" ... 'they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.' Cherish your memories!
Sooooo sad how development is eating up all of the open land...What a beautiful area it was!
It's sad to hear how much open land has been over developed. We wish all that nature had somewhere to go.
That really is sad when the $$$ comes first and nature comes in last.
I love those pictures, but the story is so sad. There are just too many of us, and in spite of the loss of so much nature a lot of people can't afford homes. It can't go on forever, but thanks so much for honoring what was once there.
Things change in a relatively short space of time. It’s sad to go back to places we grew up in. We see it here, once pristine countryside being gobbled up by new developments. Good to have these photographs for the memory bank.
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