RE: Kudzu will win

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From: Vincent Dobson (manitec@bellsouth.net)
Date: 01/02/03-12:30:32 PM Z


Sandy,

I am sure the answer is NO it would not grow that far north. Believe me
when I say you are lucky it doesn't -- You do not want it!

Vince Dobson
Visions In Nature
www.VisionsInNature.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy King [mailto:sanking@clemson.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:21 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Kudzu will win

Robert Newcomb wrote:

>My money is on the Kudzu - it alwasy wins!
>Robert N.

I am curious to know if there is any kudzu to photograph in areas of
the country outside of the southeast? Last summer while visiting some
friends in Montauck on Long Island we were discussing the question of
the erosion of the cliffs up there, and I jokingly suggested that
kudzu might solve the problem. But would it survive that far north?

Sandy King

>
>Shannon Stoney wrote:
>
>> Clay wrote:
>>
>> > Shannon:
>> > I figure you're out of town, so I am sending you the bad news via
>> > email: The Houston Chronicle is reporting this morning that the city
of
>> > Houston intends to put into service a garbage skimming boat to cruise
>> > up and down Buffalo Bayou beginning in April. That will give you only
>> > about 4 more months to make all of the ironic post-whatever
landscapes
>> > that you will need in the future. After that, this town will be CLEAN.
>>
>> Yikes! That's terrible. No more floating plastic bags or dead bodies
to
>> photograph?
>>
>> Luckily my washing machine and dryer in the creek here in TN are safe!
We
>> have more enlightened local government here. We know that if we clean
>> things up too much, we might get tourists.
>>
>> Geoff Winningham, who teaches at Rice and did a series of photogravures
>> about the bayou, broke the news to me a few weeks ago that they are
cleaning
>> up the bayou. He had a lot of great pictures, from several years ago,
of
>> jungly scenes under the freeway, where kudzu grows up the pillars that
hold
>> up the freeway beside the bayou. But alas, that kudzu is gone. It's
been
>> "cleaned up." It's starting to look downright suburban under the
freeway
>> along the bayou, the last wild and weedy place left in Houston. Soon
they
>> will start building that fake Riverwalk thing, so that we can go
*sculling*
>> on Buffalo Bayou! Ha! They think we are really going to do such an
effete
>> East Coast thing! It's bass boats or nothing, baby. Do you think we'll
>> still be allowed to set out catfish lines after that Riverfront
monstrosity
>> is built?
>>
>> Geoff said his series was about the struggle between the wild bayou and
the
>> concrete world that people have built to contain it. I said that
eventually
>> the bayou would win. Geoff just laughed. He said it would be a long
time
>> before the bayou gets the upper hand. That may be true, but what's that
>> Walker Percy novel where kudzu takes over the interstate? The Last
>> Gentleman?
>>
>> I will not give up hope as long as there are those big piles of rusting
wire
>> and pipe under the freeway where Montrose goes under it. I love those.
>> Houston will always have plenty of junk, intermixed with tropical jungly
>> growth I think. Save the banana trees growing out of discarded toilets!
>>
>> --shannon


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