{"id":6288,"date":"2016-10-27T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:08:09","slug":"progress-on-cache-river-national-wildlife-refuge-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/progress-on-cache-river-national-wildlife-refuge-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress on Cache River National Wildlife Refuge Mural"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Just a progress report \u2013 a snapshot of how this current effort is going. Okay, I think. It needs to get much messier, more foliage, downed stuff, details in the critters, but it takes time to throw paint on 12 feet of mud, trees and leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m finding this a very unusual ecosystem to paint, different than anything I\u2019ve worked on before \u2013 and that\u2019s saying something.<\/strong> Seasonal flooding in the Mississippi floodplain of Arkansas means a very difficult situation for plants to exist. Critters can just move with the water\u2019s ups-and-downs, but plants are a different deal \u2013 they can\u2019t leave. So, lots of water-tolerant trees and vines that can get above it all. One grape, for instance, can\u2019t climb, so it\u2019s starts life by grabbing onto a small shrubby tree and just waiting, going up with the tree as it grows towards the canopy. Crazy, because this is a closed-canopy forest so  how long might that plant wait to get there? Other vines climb like crazy and in the old days of old-growth, they must have been ancient thick things the size of my arm.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s one of my references taken by Eric, my go-to guy for photos and the refuge dendrologist. Am I getting the colors close to right?<\/p>\n\n\n

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And finally, here\u2019s my progress as it\u2019ll look in this section of the visitor center. There is also some text on both sides and bottom, but this shows it\u2019s overall placement so I can tell what\u2019s going on. Stay tuned for more, more mud, brown water, muddy trees and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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