SC - bayous in ARKANSAS? OT

[Robbin Long]

A bayou is just any offshoot of a river or lake - usually a stagnant or sluggish stream, occasionally on the way to becoming an oxbow.

I know we had them in Pine Bluff, AR, where I lived for seven years in Southeast AR.  The city called itself the Gateway to the Delta.  We lived just a few blocks off of Bayou Bartholomew which ran all the way to Bastrop, LA.  Bayou Meto in Stuttgart (a very sufficiently swampy area, and not just in the rice paddies) is known for great duck hunting.

Where did you grow up?  If you grew up in the northern or northwestern part of the state (Little Rock or northward), you probably wouldn't have seen any.  That is the Ozark hills region, and is a very different terrain.

I now live in New Orleans, and the bayous don't look much different as far as I can tell.

Broinnfhionn
(a New York girl who just can seem to get away from the bayous)

Robbin L. Long, Plant Physiologist
USDA-ARS, SRRC
1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd.
New Orleans, LA  70124
(504) 286-4352 phone
(504) 286-4419 fax
rlong at srrc.ars.usda.gov 


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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 09:17:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Nisha Martin <nishamartin at yahoo.com>
Subject: SC - bayous in ARKANSAS? OT

I grew up in Arkansas, and the closest thing I ever
saw to a bayou (at leat the Southern Louisiana
version) was a rice paddy in the flat lands. 
( waterlogged, humdity beyond belief and BIG
misquitoes) Are there bayous there that I never saw?
Not saying I've been to every place in AR but since I
lived there for over 20 years, I did see most of them.

nisha

 along with a wild grape-ish thing the name of which
escapes
 me, but was something similarly odd.  They probably
grew in
 the bayous? >>