Indian Paintbrush on Ancient Indian Campground Site In Great Trinity Forest April 1, 2012 The Comanche Legend of the Indian Paintbrush “Little Gopher had a dream. The vision told him to find a white buckskin and keep it. One day he would paint a picture “that is as pure as the colors in the evening …
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Texas Bluebonnets on the cliffs overlooking the Trinity River at McCommas Bluff The Comanche Legend of the Bluebonnet The Texas fields are coveredWith a blanket of deep blue.But for a little Indian girl,This would not be true. Texas land was buried and dry.Rains just would not come.Indians danced and prayed for rain,And beat upon their …
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Pemberton Meadow in the Great Trinity Forest The photo above represents what proper land stewardship and proper conservation gives you as a reward. That’s close to half a mile of wildflower covered meadow along lowest White Rock Creek in the Great Trinity Forest. It’s no accident it looks this way. The Pemberton family and pioneer …
The Texas Buckeye One of the earliest trees to leaf out in the spring, the Texas Buckeyes of the Great Trinity Forest are starting to make their showy and brief annual display. Given the mild and wet winter of 2012, the forest is weeks ahead of where it was in foliage compared to this time …
Below is a video clip I shot on the evening of March 3, 2012 featuring the complete grand opening fireworks show for the Santiago Calatrava designed Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Best viewed in HD the link of which is here Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Fireworks in HD It’s shot in 720p at 60 frames per …
In Dallas, you rarely find a place that wind, weather and woods are allowed to slowly dismantle. Usually bulldozers and backhoes do that work around here. Progress and paving usually gobble up old farmsteads around the county for new roads and development. There is a place though, tucked into the corner of the Great Trinity …
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Looking north from Oak Cliff President’s Day 1912 It was George Washington’s Birthday, February 22, 1912 that one of the most important events in Dallas history took place. The grand opening of the Dallas-Oak Cliff Viaduct now known as the Houston Street Viaduct. The whole city paused for an entire day to celebrate the opening. …
This is an epic to the historic, and still fresh in the minds of people, the mystic and fearsome Bois d’Arc Island a strip of land in the southern part of Dallas County, a couple of miles wide, and eight or ten miles long. Its area, up to recent years, was estimated all the way …
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Accounts of Frank Reaugh and Reveau Bassett’s lives limited to their work as pioneer Texas artists would, by itself, make a rich and interesting story. But there was much more to these extraordinary men. In rustic, down to earth ways they shared some of the same characteristics of Mark Twain and Leonardo da Vinci. Besides …
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Sunrise over the mouth of White Rock Creek at the Trinity River Old growth forest. Something that conjures up an image of California Redwoods, The Amazon Rainforest or a remote jungle in Burma. In Texas, it is almost impossible to find. A pocket here, an acre there. One such area of old growth exists in …
Always on the cutting edge of ingenuity and looking to stay on top of all things awesome, feral pigs have decided to “occupy” the North Dallas neighborhood of Lake Highlands. Nothing surprises me about feral pigs anymore. They have proven time after time to be smarter than people give them credit for. Can feral hogs …
No spot concentrates more history into the size of a tennis court than Miller’s Ferry in Dallas on the Trinity River. Exploration. Immigration. Habitation. Emancipation. Commercialization. Transportation. Industrialization. Ducks at Miller’s Ferry, December 2011 Sitting in the shadow of I-45 and Old Central Expressway with the Wastewater Treatment Plant just upstream it has become …
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