Mallard Cove Park Is Underwater With Some Mysterious Bubbles Burbling

A few days ago I blogged A New Cove Has Been Added To Mallard Cove Park.

Today I returned to Mallard Cove Park to find a river now runs through it.

A noticeable current was flowing along, moving debris with the flow, no litter, just river flotsam, like twigs and such.

The noticeable current surprised me, what with the current location being a bit distant from where the Trinity River flows by the north end of the park.

When I got to the edge of the flood I saw something a bit disturbing.

Bubbles burbling to the surface.

Natural gas pipelines run under this park, with multiple signs pointing out that fact. A fellow flood watcher walked up and I pointed her towards the burbles with her initial reaction being the same as mine.

A gas leak.

Eventually a less excitable type walked up and opined that the burbles were likely coming from a deep air pocket of the sort snakes live in.

I'm sticking with gas leak.

The leak was to the right of the view you see here, looking at a forlorn park bench currently mostly submerged.

I took some video of the flood and the burbling leak. You can watch that below.

Below are a pair of flood watchers who are near the aforementioned burbling.

Leaving Mallard Cove Park I continued east on Randol Mill Road, past the flooded Mary Kelleher farm, to find the road flooded and closed just past the River Bottom Bar. I turned around and headed back to Cooks Lane to head to high country and ALDI, where I got myself some Texas sweet onions, among other things.

Below is the aforementioned video....

An Elsie Hotpepper Directed Covert Document Delivery Operation Followed By A Big Snake Meeting

This morning Elsie Hotpepper tasked me with a covert operation.

Yesterday I came into possession of a document which others have been wanting to get their hands on.

Elsie Hotpepper directed me to place the document in a brown paper bag, then proceed east on Randol Mill Road til I came to a forest of TRWD campaign signs across from the notorious River Bottom Bar, where Elsie semi-regularly sings karaoke on Saturday nights.

Elsie told me to locate a black box hidden amongst the forest of campaign signs, then stick the brown paper  bag, containing the document, into the box.

Upon completion of the covert operation Elsie instructed me to text "Mission Completed" to her location. I did as instructed and soon received a "Thank You" confirmation.

I then continued on my way to Arlington to complete some other tasks, eventually ending up at the Village Creek Natural Historical Area to walk with the Indian Ghosts and see the patch of pink evening primroses you see above.

Pink evening primroses were the first Texas wildflowers I saw, years ago, late in the last century, driving towards the D/FW zone from Amarillo, the big patches of delicate looking pink flowers were something I'd not seen before, alongside a highway.

Walking with the Indian Ghosts today I came upon my first snake encounter of the year.

This big bad boy was slithering creekside at the southern dam bridge crossing Village Creek, near the now green, formerly blue, Blue Bayou, where years ago I had my first water moccasin encounter.

Menacing cloud action, and wind, had me thinking I would get rained on whilst in the Village Creek area, but I stayed dry. This morning some  big drops plopped  on me in the pool.

Day after day the prediction is for rain and thunderstorms, but it has missed my location, for the most  part. I suspect the respite from thunder booming and downpours will soon end....