{"id":516,"date":"2005-09-18T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2005-09-18T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T21:28:00","slug":"516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Rags over the River<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Poet contacted me a while back, asking me to take The Visiting Poet flyfishing. All right, I said, and let’s ask Recent Graduate as well. Eventually, the Senior was asked to come along too, and the five of us spent Saturday on the Arkansas River.<\/p>\n

September and October are the payoff for spring blizzards and summer heat. This day, the temperatures were warm, the rabbitbrush (chamisa) was in golden bloom, and the first leaves were turning golden on the willows too.<\/p>\n

The water was low and clear, and the trout were spooky, but we all caught some. And we tested various rhymes for “Orvis<\/a>,” since Visiting Poet has done some product testing for that firm.<\/p>\n

Part of the river where we fished is in the crosshairs of High Art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude<\/a> want to hang fabric across it, a project known locally as “Rags over the River.” How wonderful. I find myself agreeing with the Denver Post<\/em> headline, “Locals say river is art in itself,” placed on Rick Tosche’s Sunday column<\/a> (link may expire).<\/p>\n

With any luck, however, we can drag this thing out until Christo dies.<\/p>\n

Cross-posted to Nature Blog<\/a>. Tags: Arkansas River<\/a> Christo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rags over the River The Poet contacted me a while back, asking me to take The Visiting Poet flyfishing. All right, I said, and let’s ask Recent Graduate as well. Eventually, the Senior was asked to come along too, and the five of us spent Saturday on the Arkansas River. 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