{"id":6482,"date":"2010-07-11T20:50:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T03:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2010-07-11T20:50:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T03:50:54","slug":"photos-from-hwy-90-july-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/11\/photos-from-hwy-90-july-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from Hwy 90, July 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driving back from Mississippi this afternoon, we decided to take more scenic US 90 into town.<\/p>\n

The photos below come from less than a quarter mile southwest of Fort Pike. (The “A” marks Fort Pike.)<\/p>\n

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Here is the map closer in — the photos come from about where the “90” is on the map, between Lake Saint Catherine and Lake Pontchartrain.<\/p>\n

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For orientation, the I-10 bridge over the Lake is visible in the background of several of these photos. These were taken over a span of a few hundred feet along US 90.<\/p>\n

I’m not an expert in environment, oil, or marshland ecosystems. Nor was I searching for a smoking gun. But this does not look right to me.<\/p>\n

This part of the marsh looked a lot different than the rest.<\/p>\n

Tell me it’s a normal look.\u00c2\u00a0 Tell me that the green isn’t there temporarily (these photos are not photoshopped).\u00c2\u00a0 Can someone who knows more about these things tell me that this is a healthy marsh?\u00c2\u00a0 I honestly don’t know.<\/p>\n

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Driving back from Mississippi this afternoon, we decided to take more scenic US 90 into town. The photos below come from less than a quarter mile southwest of Fort Pike. (The “A” marks Fort Pike.) Here is the map closer in — the photos come from about where the “90” is on the map, between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,79],"tags":[203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}