Posts Tagged ‘Nature and Wildlife’
Courtesy Dallas Arboretum Community Contribution The Nancy Rutchik Red Maple Rill opens at 1:15 p.m., Oct. 6 at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, adding another feature to the internationally recognized display gardens. The 2-acre site, originally a ravine filled with bamboo and poison ivy, has been transformed into a series of Texas Stream cascades [...]
By Bruce Felps Nature appreciation, creative arts, and friendly fun come to the Bath House Cultural Center this weekend in the form of CommuniTREE, a new event organized by Amy Martin and Earth Rhythms. The event takes place from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sept. 24, along the shore of White Rock Lake. It’s intended to commemorate, [...]
Community Contribution Fall foliage will be but one attraction this season at the Dallas Arboretum. The botanical gardens opens its Cinderella Pumpkin Village Sept. 17. The display runs through Nov. 23, and features the fleeting beauty’s life-size pumpkin-styled carriage, with topiary horses, awaiting fairytale photo opportunities. The grounds will be filled with more than 50,000 [...]
By Bruce Felps Giraffes fascinated little James Sikes of Lakewood, so much so, according to the Dallas Morning News, his parents nicknamed him “Jamesie the Giraffe.” The nickname now stands, tall, as a legacy to the boy’s brief life. He passed away July 16 from a brain tumor, but the Sikes family neighbors, community, and [...]
By Bruce Felps Yesterday’s item about predators in the area generated a couple of e-mailed responses about similar dangers to small animals, and wild animals don’t differentiate between domesticated creatures and those of the wild. A gentleman named Clay Drury, if I’m correctly deciphering his e-mail address, snapped the sidewalk-side photo at the top of [...]
By Bruce Felps About a week ago, a report came in of a small dog in Wilshire Heights who endured an attack by some sort of indigenous life-form. The attack left the dog with puncture wounds below its ears and a nasty infection. Well, a follow-up missive originating from the 5800 block of Monticello Avenue [...]
By Bruce Felps This topic seems to arise periodically, and likely will never go away. An e-mail message from the Wilshire Heights Neighborhood Association brought word of a small dog, about 17 pounds, recently attacked by “something” in the dog’s backyard. The something left two large puncture wounds below the dog’s ears, which became infected [...]
By Bruce Felps The White Rock Lake Centennial Celebration concluded last weekend but the lake remains the jeweled accessory that pulls together the East Dallas community garment. The Bath House Cultural Center pays tribute to White Rock with a photographic gallery called White Rock Lake: An Inspiring Work of Art, which runs through Oct. 1 [...]
By Bruce Felps Dallas Water Utilities this weekend presents the 17th annual Water-Wise Landscape Tour, which highlights 22 landscapes heavy on native Texas plants that go light on water use. The self-guided tour takes place from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., June 4. The water department will set up three base points — at which 30-minute “MicroTalks” on [...]
Community Contribution by Amy “Moonlady” Martin For more than 100 years they stood, four great American elms behind the Bath House Cultural Center. The felling of two and the impending death of a third moved people deeply. Considering Earth Rhythms’ long history at the Bath House and the embrace of tree imagery in our logos, [...]
