Sharrows are what cyclists call them. Shared Lane Markers, Cycling Chevrons, Yield To Cyclist Markers, they go by many names. A symbol that resembles a bicycle under a roof, stenciled into the road. If you work in Downtown Dallas or frequent Deep Ellum you might have seen them spring up overnight on Main Street, Lamar …
Continue reading “Deep Ellum Shared Bike Lanes On Main and Lamar a ride to the river”
In recent decades it has become customary, and right I guess, and easy enough with hindsight, to damn the ancestral frame of mind that ravaged the world so fully and so soon. What I myself seem to damn mainly though, is just not having seen it. Without any virtuous hindsight I would likely have helped in the …
Continue reading “Birds of September — Tropical Bird Redux On The Trinity”
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. –Mark Twain Horseback at the confluence of the West and Elm …
Continue reading “Trinity Trail Between The Levees — A Promised Path By 2014”
Thunderhead viewed from atop McCommas Bluff, August 2012 If I squint my eyes long enough through the late afternoon haze I just might find what I’m looking for. Takes awhile though. Seven miles away and a couple dozen floors up in my office building I can just make out the river as it flows through …
Daytime temperatures soar well over one hundred degrees in Dallas during early August. The chance to encounter some of the larger animals living in the Great Trinity Forest really drops off as a result. Down to a near zero chance of seeing one. Rather than a traditional 4pm Saturday visit to the river, I went …
A sighting of Roseate Spoonbills in North Texas is a rare and special occasion. Their occurrence as a casual summer visitor to the Great Trinity Forest has not been well documented so seeing one, a pair, a few or a baker’s dozen is special. Roseate Spoonbills in the Great Trinity Forest July 28, 2012 Spoonbills, …
Continue reading “Roseate Spoonbills Put The Trinity In Pink”
Quoi ! des cohortes étrangères Feraient la loi dans nos foyers ! Quoi ! Ces phalanges mercenaires –La Marseillaise What! Foreign cohorts Would make the law in our homes! What! These mercenary phalanxes….is the English translation of La Marseillaise the French National Anthem. Fitting that those words describe how the coyotes of the swamp feel surrounded by …
Ahh yes, the cool unfiltered 68-70 degree water of White Rock Spring in the Great Trinity Forest sure does look like a thirst quencher on a day when the temperature is 102 degrees in the shade. Running colder and clearer than the more famous Barton Springs, San Marcos and Comal Springs to the south it …
Where the wild things are. A special place that for a few weeks serves as a backdrop that I’m not sure even an African safari could rival. These are scenes that had me shaking my head, amazed to see firsthand. To see different wild animals coexisting on some base level in the same body of …
Continue reading “Wild Pigs, Wood Storks and Spoonbills Of Dallas”
North American River Otter in Great Trinity Forest Dallas Texas June 30, 2012 A rare sight indeed to see a River Otter inside the city limits of Dallas. Many fishermen, hunters and outdoorsmen can spend every weekend of their lives on the water in Texas and never see one. The matrix of ecology needed to …
Swamp Coyotes in the Great Trinity Forest dawn June 23, 2012 Staring down three coyotes at 6:00 on a summer saturday morning among a labyrinth of head high swamp grass is quite a way to start a day. I could not tell if they were interested in me or the beeps of my camera. More …
A story older than Texas itself. One that has been told and retold countless times in English, Spanish, French, Comanche and Caddo. A story told in those languages at the very spot seen above over two dozen centuries. The fight over water. You don’t realize how valuable water can be until you don’t have it …
