Living with Coyotes
Contact the following for assistance with wildlife: Photo by Karin Saucedo of the Canid Project.
News
Independence Day Parade Was So Much Fun!
A wonderful look back at the Eastwood parade and picnic on July 4th. We had a record crowd of around 100 people and lots of dogs. A police car, firetruck, and a tractor, plus bikes, kids’ cars, an adult trike, and even a rolling toy lawnmower bubbleblower. Our neighborhood is…
Entry Garden: Monthly Garden Days Begin on 4th Sats
The Eastwood entry garden is looking great! Red blossoms are bursting on the Turk’s caps and hummingbirds have already found them. The lantana is wild with yellow flowers and butterflies. The other wildflowers are looking fine as well. Let’s keep it that way! Monthly garden days begin on 4th Saturdays…
BE a PART of the PARADE!
BE a PART of the PARADE! Details on the event: https://eastwooddallas.org/eastwood-july-4th-parade-and-picnic/
Making Eastwood Fun
Don’t you love the Spring Celebration & Easter Egg Hunt? Certainly, the July 4th Parade & Picnic! Your dues make these big events possible. Join! Be a part of the team by emailing or texting Catherine. We hear you! You want even more fun, smaller events to mix and mingle…
In the Greenbelt Woods: Making the Trail Sing Again
by Amy Martin Great restoration day last Saturday. Cade Lobodzinski dispatched the dangerous limb blocking the trail. Basically, the entire top of a large tree, probably from the high winds a while back. Then he tackled the hanging limb at the trail entrance at the knoll. Now you can see…
In the Greenbelt Woods: mid-June edition
by Amy Martin, author, Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth As summer ensues, the shady woods trail is needed more than ever. But it needs work. Woods Issues The eastern poison ivy Toxicodendron radicans was making the woods trail downright dangerous. But after three assaults on it, it’s starting…
In the Greenbelt Meadow: mid-June edition
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
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,…
Coexisting with Coyotes
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…
Entry Meadow: Behind the Stakes
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,…
Entry Garden: Sprinklers Now Flow!
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…