Angel the horse takes a break from a trail ride to McCommas Bluff at the Dowdy Ferry Gateway Trail and park, May 25, 2014 Dallas, Texas Location: 2081 Dowdy Ferry Road Dallas, TexasGPS 32.680542,-96.677585Gravel trailhead parking lot with horse trailer parkingPicnic/BBQ facilities chemical toilets and water fountainsOld gravel quarry turned fishing pond with concrete trail around …
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The Texas White Faced Ibis a State Threatened Species in Dallas, Texas May 23, 2014 Certain shorebird and wading bird species are the first push of migratory Central and South American birds through the Great Trinity Forest every year. They are only seen for a brief time as flock after flock stop to refuel for …
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A carpet of red Indian Paintbrush at McCommas Bluff Preserve Crepuscular is a term seldom used in common conversation. It’s a time of day around dawn or dusk when certain animals get out and roam around. For photography or general exploring it often lends itself to the most photogenic scenes and greatest swath of wildlife …
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The unpaved, just off the beaten paths along the Trinity River in early spring highlight nature in the raw to those who venture into it. They are places of profound beauty and wonder that so very few ever experience. A scant handful of human signs mark the place which only offer suggestions on where to …
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Under the ancient Bur Oak on March 29, 2014 in the Great Trinity Forest with the complete lineage of title ownership represented at Big Spring Billy Ray Pemberton; Pemberton Family (1880-2004), City of Dallas Assistant City Manager Jill Jordan; City of Dallas (2004-Current), Mike Toyer; Beeman Family(1842-1880) who were original grantees to the land when …
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Elam Spring as it flows over native Austin Chalk limestone at the former site of Camp Woodland Springs in Dallas, Texas It’s just the other side of nowhere goes the old country song. A place that we as Dallasites all but gave up on and left to go to seed two or maybe three generations …
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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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