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…