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| Just west of the Kayak Boat Ramp |
Well, that helps to explain some of the millions of gallons that is every where in North and Central Texas right now.
After the Doctor today, it was only sprinkling and I drove from the Doctors to the Lake. Sadly, two big and mammoth trees have been lost. The ground is just saturated and the weight of the trees shifty the pivot point enough to bring the trees down under their own weight. What a loss. Both were in areas that have a fair amount of traffic with people walking their dogs and picnic tabling just west of the Kayak rentals boat ramp and the other is just across from the new boat shelter that has just been built and where photographers watch Owls and Red Sholder hawks. In fact, the Red Shoulder was sitting on a light pole on Mockingbird as I came down and he was a bit restless. After seeing where the tree stood and where it fell, it was clear that it might have been a nesting tree this past season.
And, the link that we are only one person away from knowing everyone was kind of driven home while talking with my Doctor. He had gone on vacation to India to see his mother and father and had stopped in Istambul,Turkey on the way back to the states and was there just a day or two after the Washington Post reporter went missing. Never in a million years had I ever imagined that someone I knew would have been in Turkey at that time where a journalist of reknown status would go missing. It just points out how small the world has become as it grows even smaller today.
It's like I would never have imagined in fourth grade when Mrs. Ray had our class pick a spot in the world where we would like to visit someday. I had picked Rio. Just over three decades ago, I'm on a flight climbing out of Rio over the bay. I'm looking down at the beautiful site when it all comes back into memory that I had picked Rio for that class project. Here I was looking down at the very place that I had walked, dined, and absorbed the culture for a while. Where would I want to go now, I had been to the place of my dreams. That's an awful experience to have experienced. Awful in a good way. So many people have dreams that are never fulfilled. Actually, I had never expected for me to have fulfilled mine either. Fate deals hands that are random but also a part of a master scheme of life, I believe.
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| Along Buckner on the street side and just west of the Big Thicket Building on the park side. |
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| If this had happened with someone sitting at the table, it would have been severe. This goes the the trunk seen at the top. |
