by Amy Martin, author, Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth The greenbelt is still looking good in late spring, but a few issues, too. Flowering Beauties The reigning flower at present is Carolina woollywhite, Hymenopappus scabiosaeus. You need to look at this one up close. The flowers are…
Eastwood July 4th Parade and Picnic July 4th — 9 am to noon Gather at Dixon Branch Greenbelt Park, 10305 Lippitt/Sylvania and Sinclair. Decorate yourself, your dogs, your kids and their rolling toys, and your motorcycle, ATV or golf cart in patriotic wares. We’ll turn on Creekmere, go down Overglen,…
From the Old Lake Highlands newsletter. If we had more ENA newsletter volunteers, we could offer features like this. Coexisting with Coyotes Dallas Animal Services (DAS) presented a “Coyote Outreach” session at the Bathhouse Cultural Center on May 21. Dallas’s Program for Coyote Management The city’s program relies on maintaining…
by Amy Martin Let’s talk a bit about the entry meadow behind the garden. It’s a mess, overgrown with brome grass that’s now gone to seed because the city did not respond to pleas to mow it. According to experts, if brome grass is mowed short for a few years,…
by Amy MartIn It had been years since the entry garden sprinklers did anything more than gurgle. Dirt and plants had consumed the sprinkler heads. Some had been knocked off by city mowers. The water main box had been crushed by something very large and no water emerged at all…
by Amy Martin The Eastwood Diggers (our name for this go round) convened to finish prepping and planting the Peavy half of the entry garden. A big task! Lots of rosinweed roots to dig out — a lovely, overambitious native plant that took over the garden during its two years…
The ENA membership met on Thursday, May 15 at Central Lutheran Church for an update on neighborhood news. Guest Speakers We kicked off with a short appearance by DPD-NE Deputy Chief Patricia Mora, who summarized police efforts in the area and fielded questions on Eastwood crime, which is lower than…
Adjusting your settings, limiting who your post goes out to, and muting businesses and obnoxious people will make Nextdoor fun again. Get to Know Your Settings Look for your photo and click it. That leads you to your profile page. Click on settings. There you can: Control Who You Post…
VIP Training Class Let’s make Eastwood safer for all of us Volunteers in Patrol for our area. VIP patrols are here to protect you, your family, and your property, too. We all feel better when a VIP car with signs and flashing light is in your alleyway day or night….
Eastwood State of the Neighborhood Gathering Come get the neighborhood news. We’ll be honoring Warren and Ginger Travis for starting Eastwood Riparian many years ago. A speaker from the City of Dallas Code Compliance will inform and answer questions. Find out what Eastwood’s fabulous interest groups are up to and…
STOP! Just stop! Pull over and get out of your car. Take a quick amble through the greenbelt off Creekmere between Overglen and Creekmere Cir. The beauty you see close up is incomparable to what’s visible on foot. In full disclosure, there are bitey bugs in the grass, so take…
After a long period of neglect, today the Eastwood entry garden at Creekmere and Peavy came back to life. Many thanks to Sharon Holmes, Keith Marcom, Francis Shaner, and myself, Amy Martin. Planning on a two-hour garden session, the results of our labors were so exciting we kept at it…