The fence around the Talking Water Gardens has provided fodder for his blog for years. It is providing this valuable service once again.
Tags: broken fence, Cox Creek path, damaged fencing, open gates, Talking Waters
The fence around the Talking Water Gardens has provided fodder for his blog for years. It is providing this valuable service once again.
Dead trees crashing down across the Cox Creek Path in Albany and taking out sections of chain-link fencing — that’s getting to be a routine or at least recurring thing.
Wednesday was supposed to be the last dry and sunny day for a while. The afternoon found the bike and me on Albany’s Cox Creek Path, where I noticed two things.
This scene looks familiar, doesn’t it? That’s because along Cox Creek in Albany, trees falling down and smashing the chain link fence of Talking Water Gardens is a regular thing.
For about an hour between 5 and 6 on Wednesday night, the bike took me on my usual route along the Albany riverfront to the east end of town, and then back a different way. In bright sunshine, these were among the things I saw:
Saturday was a fine day to ride a bike around Albany, and on the Cox Creek Path I came across the aftermath of something that has happened on that path before.

Bulletin from the path beat: Fence is fixed
Nobody has been waiting for this bit of non-news from my bike rides on Albany bikeways, but here it is anyway: The fence on Cox Creek Path has been repaired.
Tags: Cox Creek path, falling trees, fence repairs, storm damage, Talking Water Gardens