A Garden Grows

Colorful yarn bomb explodes at Buffalo Bayou Park, heralding return after storm

If you've been driving down Allen Parkway since the weekend, you've probably noticed a bright addition to the Buffalo Bayou Park scenery — a yarn bomb declaring "Buffalo Bayou Park's Back!" The 100-foot colorful extravaganza of crocheted and knitted flowers and greenery extends along the park railing at Allen Parkway and Taft.

The brainchild of Mary Goldsby, landscape architect and Urban Yarnage founder, was inspired by the Memorial Day flooding and the park's quick return to usability. Urban Yarnage members, some 12 in all, worked for several weeks creating the nature scene that was installed on Saturday.

Better get there quickly though as the installation will be up for only two weeks or so.

Urban Yarnage installs a yarn bomb each year around International Yarn Bomb Day. In 2014, the group created a "Travis-aurus" dinosaur for the playground at Travis Elementary in The Woodland Heights. See images of yarn bomb projects around the world here.

Yarn bombers at work along Buffalo Bayou Park.

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R.I.P., Mayor Turner

How to pay respects as late Houston mayor Sylvester Turner lies in state

Photo courtesy of Mayor's Office, City of Houston

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The City of Houston is remembering the late Sylvester Turner - the former mayor of Houston who won election last November to fill late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's seat in District 18.

He died Wednesday, March 5 at 70 years old.

Turner was in attendance at President Donald Trump's Joint Address to Congress last week. According to his family, he was taken to the hospital Tuesday night and later released while in Washington, D.C. At 5:45 am Wednesday, he died at home from enduring health complications, the family said.

Turner will lie in state at the Houston City Hall rotunda on Tuesday, March 11. The memorial began at 9 am with brief remarks from Mayor John Whitmire. The rotunda will be open to visitors until 7 pm Tuesday.

Members of the public are invited to sign the book of condolence at the entrance to City Hall. Visitors are asked not to stop in the rotunda to talk, take photographs, or video so that the line continues to move without delay.

After he's honored in Houston, Turner will "lie in honor" at the State Capitol in Austin on Thursday and Friday.

Then, he'll return to his hometown for the last time for his funeral on Saturday at 1 pm at The Church Without Walls on Houston's northwest side, where Turner attended church for 35 years.

Turner's family is asking guests attending the service to wear blue.

A private burial will follow.

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