Green River
November 2, 2011
Yesterday’s pic-of-the-day was a shot of Putah Creek–the north fork that runs through campus.
Far less groomed is this fork of the mighty Putah… which may be a tributary of the south fork, but I’m not sure. LL and I took a late afternoon walk here. I used to run along this trail in runnier days when I lived in South Davis, gasp, 19 years ago.
Curious about which fork was which, I did a bit of research at the Davis Wiki site. The most interesting thing I learned was that the Credence Clearwater Revival song Green River is about the summers the band members spent on Putah Creek.
How ’bout that.
Life of Wry 
November 3, 2011 at 2:10 pm
The first time I saw Putah Creek, when I was started work at Mrak Hall back in 1989, I thought it was the ugliest example of nature I’d ever seen. Now, I sort of appreciate it 🙂 I had no idea that CCR song was about Putah Creek until I read it somewhere a few months ago! LOVE that song!
November 3, 2011 at 2:23 pm
You thought it was ugly? 😦 Where?