Oil Booms In Houston Meant To Prevent Seepage Of Nature Into Our Productive Polluted Waterways
Here is a picture I took last week of Buffalo Bayou here in Houston.
You see that there is one those orange containment booms like those being used to protect the Gulf of Mexico coast from oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill.
Things are a little different in here in Houston.
That boom is in fact intended to prevent any infectious nature—like those alien trees in the picture— from seeping into the Bayou or into any other of our economically-productive polluted waterways.
We don’t want the balance of things upset here in Houston.
Also, did you know that you purchase oil booms for your own use?
Sometimes People Hold On To Things For A Bit Long
Here is a picture I took in Newport, Kentucky last February of people who were give up on Santa Claus. Christmas had been over for about two months when I took this picture.
I meant to run this picture months ago, but have only gotten to it now after we are deep into spring.
Is Santa still up at this home? I’ll be in Newport again in a few weeks and maybe I will check and see.
Or maybe I will not.
In any case, people sometimes hold on to things much longer than they should.
Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
A blog grows one reader at a time. If you like what you read here, please consider forwarding the link.
Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
Thanks for reading Texas Liberal.
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