Boyds Untethered

Lydia’s artsy shot of part of the seawall mural and the memorial statue for the 1900 hurricane. The  See-Wall Mural  project was originally executed in 1996 and involved 14,000 diverse people, mostly children, who painted the largest paint-by-numbers mural in the world.  Stretching 2 1/2 miles of seawall from 61st to 25th streets, over 2,000 gallons of paint were used to paint images of Gulf Coast flora and fauna as well as the interaction between people and the natural environment .

The 30 blocks of beach between the 61st St and 91st St piers was created in 2015…  using sand that the Army Corps of Engineers had dredged from the Galveston Shipping Channel. The beach in front of that section of the seawall had eroded away decades ago, leaving only the granite blocks that had been placed there by the Corps of Engineers to protect the base of the seawall. At the time it was the single largest amount of sand, 750,00 cubic yards, ever deposited on the beaches of Galveston. This summer the Corps of Engineers we’re back to add some more of that dredged sand to that same stretch of beach in order to give us a bigger beach.  That project ran 24hrs/day, 7 days/week for 4 months.  Here, the work crews are offshore to remove the underwater piping that had been used to pump the sand ashore from the ship that dredged it out of the shipping channel and then brought it to us.  As you can see that work was supervised by a committee of shore birds… and I’m sure mo...

Galveston has welcomed the Lone Star Rally since 2001. More than 400,000 motorcycle enthusiasts make their way to the island in one of the biggest motorcycle rallies in the country . “We thank the city of Galveston for having us back. Us not being here last year due to Covid was tough on the city” said Mark Gray Lone Star Rally spokesperson. “The Lone Star Rally is back in full force...You really got to see it to believe it.”Motorcycles on Strand Street as far as the eye could see”.  “Hundreds of thousands of people paying mind to local businesses and hundreds of vendors”. We went down to The Strand on Friday night and it was all that they had promised. In fact, once we got east of 25th St on the Seawall we heard the rumble of bikes everywhere, all around us… even when there were none to be seen.

I think I would have to say that Fall was my favorite season when we lived in Colorado. There always seemed to be a clear crispness to the air that was particularly nice… even though it meant that winter was in the way. I was thinking that we might be giving up “fall” when we moved south… and most probably would be giving up “fall as the best season”. But it turns out I was wrong.  Here is proof that we do get a changing of the colors here.  And the September, October weather has been quite nice. A little bit cooler, a little less humid and the very occasional thunderstorm with torrential rain to spice things up a bit. PS… photo by Lydia