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Sushi and Georgia O’Keeffe
Crazy Fish Sushi and a book of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings (Click to Enlarge) It was way too hot. The mercury was rising well past the century mark and the Texas sun was beating down, roasting the world...
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What I learned this week, October 11, 2013
Revealed: How Gaudi’s Barcelona cathedral will finally look on completion in 2026… 144 years after building started This amazes me to no end. Seeing the Sagrada Familia is something I want to do before...
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Galatyn Park Fountain
Another photo I took as part of the Bicycle Friendly Richardson – bike photo scavenger hunt – Bicycle Ride and Seek. This is the fountain at Galatyn Park. Fountain at Galatyn Park, Richardson, TX(click...
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Milk Crate Bicycle
I’m working on DIY solutions for storage on my bicycle. Looking around at useful stuff I see, one of the most common, hipster, useful, cheap, and crunchy things to do is to simply bungee a plastic milk...
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Tomorrow’s Legacy
Three more photographs I took as part of the Bicycle Friendly Richardson – bike photo scavenger hunt – Bicycle Ride and Seek. This is Tomorrow’s Legacy by Jerry Sanders – located in the Palisades...
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Aurora Dallas
I first heard about Aurora last time it happened, but was out of town that weekend and couldn’t make it. Then, on the way to a play at the Wyly theater, I saw a preview of Aurora – specifically an...
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Community Beer Bicycle Swap Meet
October in Texas is a special time. With the killer summer heat broken – we have a short time of pleasant, comfortable weather… no more than a few weeks before the violent swings of winter set in....
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Afternoon Cocktails at the Nasher
Cyclists at the Nasher(click to enlarge) Sunday was the fourth day in a row that I did the same thing – left my house on my bicycle and bought a ticket on the DART train for downtown Dallas....
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Carrollton Collages
To get to the Carrollton Festival at the Switchyard I rode my bike to the Arapaho Red Line DART station – hung my bike on the transit hook and rode downtown (as always, I was a minute late, missed my...
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Dallas Contemporary Street Art Bike Tour
First, let me tell a little story. It’s a story I’ve told too many times before, and if you know me, you’ve probably heard it more than once. But if I type it out here, maybe I can get it out of the...
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Santa Fe Fall Pub Ride
It seems longer ago – but it was only last May that I rode a fun bike ride sponsored by the Friends of the Santa Fe Trail (my favorite bike trail in the Metroplex). Today they were doing another one…...
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What I learned this week, November 22, 2013
5 city bikes that roll you through town in style The latest in steel-framed, fender-clad, and leather-saddled bikes at a variety of price points. Some of the ones that caught my eye: Shinola Runwell...
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Sweeping the Cycletrack
There are a lot of cycling events in Dallas, this time of year… even though the weather is extremely iffy. It can be freezing, wet, windy, or even hot – but at least it won’t be toxic, like the days of...
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Black Friday Ride(s)
I spent a few more minutes sweeping the bridge over the Trinity River than I had intended, so I had to rush out. Bike Friendly Richardson was doing their annual Black Friday Ride at 1PM and I only had...
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Dallas Tweed Ride
Today was an event I was looking forward to, the Dallas 2013 Tweed Ride. I had what was, I guess, the bare minimum – a tweed jacket from Goodwill and a tweed cap a friend had found on Amazon. So I was...
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Bike Ride in New Orleans
My Commuter Bike in Audubon Park, New Orleans(click to enlarge) I drove to the Big Easy over the weekend to pick up my son Lee (who just graduated from Tulane) and bring him back to Dallas for the...
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Birdhouses in the Tree of Life
While I was going on my little bike ride in New Orleans I made a quick stop on the river side of Audubon Park, next to the Zoo. There is a cool tree there – an ancient (planted circa 1740) and enormous...
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White Rock Lake
I always seem to get sick between Christmas and New Year. Since I haven’t been able to breathe, I haven’t rode my bike since the day after Christmas. I miss it. So I’m looking at photos I took not very...
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River Bottom Bicycle Route
View from the high point of the Jefferson Viaduct Cycletrack, Trinity River, Dallas, Texas I have been struggling with a nasty something – maybe nothing more than a stubborn cold – since Christmas or...
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Seventh Street Bridge
She’s driving home Sunday morning, with the heat turned up, the windows rolled down to the edge. And yesterday, snowed for the first time. Now no one’s on the Willis Avenue Bridge. Used to be a hard...
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