Upcoming March Outing
Spring Blooms at the Dallas Arboretum
Saturday, March 26th, 2022 8:15am
The Arboretum is ranked in the top ten botanic gardens in the country and their Spring Blooms present a blaze of color heralding the coming of Spring in Texas! At this time of year, they have a profusion of daffodils, tulips and hyacinth so they are very aromatic.
We will meet at Market Street at 8:15 am on Saturday, March 26th, arrive at the Arboretum about 9 am. We will have 2 1⁄2 hours at the arboretum then drive to the Dallas Farmers Market for lunch, returning to Market Street about 2 pm.
There is a variety of food items for sale at the market with centralized seating including steak, Indian, Thai, Italian, Caribbean, and Mexican foods. Top Restaurants and Cute Boutiques in Dallas | Dallas Farmers Market
The normal price for admission is $20 for adults, $16 for seniors
and parking is $11 per vehicle but I may be able to get a group rate depending on how many people we have participate. Two of our club members have membership in the Arboretum.
Do not buy tickets yet!
Ddodds0402@gmail.com
DEADLINE TO SIGN UP
Please confirm via email before Saturday, March 19th if you are interested. Include you cell phone number. Ddodds0402@gmail.com
Spring Blooms at the Dallas Arboretum
Saturday, March 26th, 2022 8:15am
The Arboretum is ranked in the top ten botanic gardens in the country and their Spring Blooms present a blaze of color heralding the coming of Spring in Texas! At this time of year, they have a profusion of daffodils, tulips and hyacinth so they are very aromatic.
We will meet at Market Street at 8:15 am on Saturday, March 26th, arrive at the Arboretum about 9 am. We will have 2 1⁄2 hours at the arboretum then drive to the Dallas Farmers Market for lunch, returning to Market Street about 2 pm.
There is a variety of food items for sale at the market with centralized seating including steak, Indian, Thai, Italian, Caribbean, and Mexican foods. Top Restaurants and Cute Boutiques in Dallas | Dallas Farmers Market
The normal price for admission is $20 for adults, $16 for seniors
and parking is $11 per vehicle but I may be able to get a group rate depending on how many people we have participate. Two of our club members have membership in the Arboretum.
Do not buy tickets yet!
Ddodds0402@gmail.com
DEADLINE TO SIGN UP
Please confirm via email before Saturday, March 19th if you are interested. Include you cell phone number. Ddodds0402@gmail.com
February Outing
I had originally selected the Dallas Arboretum for our February outing for their spectacular “Spring Blooms” event which starts on Feb 19th, but my wife and I visited on January 30th and I think the blooms will be later this year, even more so with the freezing weather we are having this first weekend in February.
Instead, I have organized a private visit to the Ft Worth Botanic Garden butterfly exhibit.
We will car-pool from Market Street in Colleyville to the Rainforest Conservatory on University Drive in Ft Worth on Monday, Feb 28th at 8am (Sorry they don’t allow private visits on Saturdays or Sundays) We will arrive at the Rainforest Conservatory on University Drive by 8:30am and have 90 minutes to photograph the butterflies before the exhibit opens to the public.
The price for this event is $30. For another $10 you can enter the Botanic Garden also. The Butterfly Exhibit does not allow strollers, carts nor food and drink but tripods and camera bags (no wheels) are OK.
We would then move to Trinity Park to photograph the Police and Firefighters Memorial and to shoot photos of the West 7th Street bridge. We will have lunch at a nearby Seventh Street restaurant at about 11:30 and then return home.
Please let me have an expression of interest from members by Valentine’s Day. More details about how to pay will be sent out after that date.
Here’s the information from the Botanic Gardens website:
“Celebrate the Change” in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and marvel at a multitude of butterflies during Butterflies in the Garden, the largest exhibit of live, exotic butterflies in north-central Texas.
Behold nature’s wondrous transformation and marvel at brilliantly colored living jewels fluttering about in the Rainforest Conservatory. Butterflies in the Garden kicks off on February 25 and runs through April 10. The six-week exhibit will be open daily, including Sundays., We can’t wait to see you there!
Family-friendly, educational, immersive, and “Instagrammable”, this exhibit always proves its popularity.
January Outing
On Saturday, January 29th, we held our first outing of 2022 where we visited four locations – the Dallas Fabrication Yard to see the street art, a walk to Sylvan Ave Bridge to shoot the Dallas skyline, a stop at the Trinity Groves parking lot to get a close up shot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and finally we ended up In Deep Ellum for a BBQ lunch at Pecan Lodge followed by a walk round Deep Ellum. The following members participated: Nancy Abby, Dick Dodds, Lynn Harris, Bruce Hutter, Lana Macko, Larry Marx, Jep Nkashama (a meetup member), Mahannah Pike, Dave Roberts, Vickie Stanley, Susan Taylor, and Bill Webb.
The fabrication yard is located in a West Dallas heavy industrial district, and it consists of a couple of blocks of derelict corrugated iron building totally covered with graffiti (or street art!). It was started in 2014. The address is 621 Fabrication Street, Dallas, 75212. Artists have free rein to paint whatever they want.
We then parked at the foot of the Sylvan Avenue bridge at the corner of Sylvan and Morris and walked up the footpath of the bridge to take photos of the Dallas skyline including the two iconic bridges – the Margaret Hunt Hill bridge and the Margaret McDermott bridge.
The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opened in 2012 at a cost of $120M and consists of a span of 1200 ft and an arch of 400 ft.
The Margaret McDermott bridge (She is the wife of the founder of Texas Instruments), also designed by Santiago Calatrava, opened in 2017 at a cost of over $200M. The span is 1125 ft and the height of the decorative arches is 350 ft.
The next stop was the parking lot next to Trinity Groves at 3015 Gulden where we had a close-up view of the Margaret Hunt Hill bridge and walked across the old Singleton Rd Bridge which is now pedestrianized (and renamed as “the Ronald Kirk Pedestrian Bridge”).
We then made our way to Deep Ellum for lunch at Pecan Lodge, one of the top BBQ restaurants in Dallas. At this point the official tour was over and participants were turned loose to enjoy the murals, street art and architecture of Deep Ellum. A group of us walked to see the sculpture “The Traveling Man” at the corner of Good Latimer and Swiss Avenue.
Many of the participants’ photos have been posted on the Trinity Arts Photo Club website.
On Saturday, January 29th, we held our first outing of 2022 where we visited four locations – the Dallas Fabrication Yard to see the street art, a walk to Sylvan Ave Bridge to shoot the Dallas skyline, a stop at the Trinity Groves parking lot to get a close up shot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and finally we ended up In Deep Ellum for a BBQ lunch at Pecan Lodge followed by a walk round Deep Ellum. The following members participated: Nancy Abby, Dick Dodds, Lynn Harris, Bruce Hutter, Lana Macko, Larry Marx, Jep Nkashama (a meetup member), Mahannah Pike, Dave Roberts, Vickie Stanley, Susan Taylor, and Bill Webb.
The fabrication yard is located in a West Dallas heavy industrial district, and it consists of a couple of blocks of derelict corrugated iron building totally covered with graffiti (or street art!). It was started in 2014. The address is 621 Fabrication Street, Dallas, 75212. Artists have free rein to paint whatever they want.
We then parked at the foot of the Sylvan Avenue bridge at the corner of Sylvan and Morris and walked up the footpath of the bridge to take photos of the Dallas skyline including the two iconic bridges – the Margaret Hunt Hill bridge and the Margaret McDermott bridge.
The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opened in 2012 at a cost of $120M and consists of a span of 1200 ft and an arch of 400 ft.
The Margaret McDermott bridge (She is the wife of the founder of Texas Instruments), also designed by Santiago Calatrava, opened in 2017 at a cost of over $200M. The span is 1125 ft and the height of the decorative arches is 350 ft.
The next stop was the parking lot next to Trinity Groves at 3015 Gulden where we had a close-up view of the Margaret Hunt Hill bridge and walked across the old Singleton Rd Bridge which is now pedestrianized (and renamed as “the Ronald Kirk Pedestrian Bridge”).
We then made our way to Deep Ellum for lunch at Pecan Lodge, one of the top BBQ restaurants in Dallas. At this point the official tour was over and participants were turned loose to enjoy the murals, street art and architecture of Deep Ellum. A group of us walked to see the sculpture “The Traveling Man” at the corner of Good Latimer and Swiss Avenue.
Many of the participants’ photos have been posted on the Trinity Arts Photo Club website.
check out some of the pictures from january's photo outing
TAPC OUTING
Jan 29th, 2022
Dallas street art & iconic bridges
Welcome to the first outing of 2022. My name is Dick Dodds, and I am the coordinator of Outing for the club - a position I held at the Ft. Worth Camera Club for a couple of years.
Firstly, I like people to sign up for my outings – this is particularly important if I am trying to arrange a lunch place as I need to know how many people to cater for. I also need contact information in case I need to make some last-minute changes or cancellations in case of bad weather.
So – if you are interested in joining me on the first outing, please reply to my email:
ddodds0402@gmail.com
and send me:
your name
your email address
your contact phone number (preferably cell)
whether or not you want to join us for lunch – probably BBQ
click here for full details on this outing
Firstly, I like people to sign up for my outings – this is particularly important if I am trying to arrange a lunch place as I need to know how many people to cater for. I also need contact information in case I need to make some last-minute changes or cancellations in case of bad weather.
So – if you are interested in joining me on the first outing, please reply to my email:
ddodds0402@gmail.com
and send me:
your name
your email address
your contact phone number (preferably cell)
whether or not you want to join us for lunch – probably BBQ
click here for full details on this outing
photos from a previous field trip in deep ellum
ONGOING EVENTS
Heritage Village at
Old City Park Dallas, TX
Check the website
for various activities
https://www.dallasheritagevillage.org
Friday/Saturday
Stockyards
Championship Rodeo
http://stockyardsrodeo.com/events/
Texas Discovery Gardens
& Butterfly House
Fair Park, Dallas, TX
http://texasdiscoverygardens.org