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The exquisite bloom of a Texas Buckeye in the Great Trinity Forest Dallas Texas The Texas Buckeye Tree Aesculus glabra var. arguta makes for one of the earliest and best shows of color in the state. The Great Trinity Forest holds prime examples of these species many in a special grove inside Rochester Park. Coinciding …
It’s just far enough, 5 minutes out of the city limits and five river miles downstream. Where the only floatsam trash one is likely to encounter is that of errant old battered Green Winged Teal decoys that broke loose from a hunter’s blind line upstream. A place where in art imitating life, the hunter’s quarry …
A Trout Lily Erythronium albidum in full bloom, Dallas, Texas February 2014 The labors of spring begin anew in the smallest and most subtle of ways in North Texas. The dull and drab landscapes of the woods seem to be in a deep slumber in February. If you know where to look, in just the …
The Great Trinity Forest blanketed by snow, the warmth of Big Spring protects the plants from the bitter cold The rarity of a blanketing snow event in Dallas transforms the fields and woods of the Great Trinity Forest into a site few see. Getting here, across the roads, bridges and freeways is a journey unto …
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Diving Ducks — Lesser Scaups and a Canvasback in the Lower Chain of Wetlands The caravan of rafting ducks on Texas water in the winter is a concentration of waterfowl from across the continent. Wary of people and sensitive to particular feeding traits many of the oddball bird species are only glimpsed from afar…or not …
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The Trinity Forest Golf Course as seen from Google Earth As details of the Trinity Forest Golf course slowly take shape, so does the physical golf course layout. The Greek sigma shaped section on the left(west) with the course bisected by a trenched creek running north to south with more holes to the right(east). It …
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A Northern Shoveler drake in full breeding plumage at Wetland Cell G, Lower Chain of Wetlands, Dallas, Texas The shortest days of the year in North Texas usually signal the peak residency times of overwintering migratory ducks for this part of the Trinity River Basin. 2013 saw a very slow start to the migratory fowl …
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Dallasite and endurance mountain biker Ray Porter overlooking the Trinity River from the Trinity River Trail bridge near the Audubon Center, 2013 Who is the best mountain biker you ever saw. Ray Porter is who. The best. Ray Porter’s Memorial Service Facebook information
Sabal Minor Palms in Dallas County Texas It is most likely one of the farthest northwestern natural palm tree colonies in North America. Perhaps a remnant holdout of a long ago time when glaciers covered much of the continent and the area known as Dallas County was a wet swamp of a place. Frankly, little …
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Thick ice fog gathers at dawn along the Lower Chain of Wetlands Winter comes a little early to North Texas in 2013. A cold winter ahead maybe? The stories of West Nile Virus carrying mosquitoes are rotated out for that of white knuckle driving on Texas highest overpasses. What escapes many is that while the …
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