In Texas, When It's Miller TIme, You Stop!

Where else can you find a cooler, a tent and orange cones in the middle of 16-lanes but in Texas.

Blueprints and a blueprint reader for this project

It's Miller Time!

Perception is everything so when I came across a second tent in the HOV lanes there was something strikingly different with the white tent.

 

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A couple of days ago while running errands, I came across a construction crew working on LBJ 635 in the High 5 area.A couple of images were posted (Color on the High 5,posted July 9).

Yesterday,the crew was still working and it was a Saturday.It was also 100-degrees. The frame work is so complicated that it takes a set of blueprints and a blueprint reader to walk the crew through the installation of this fiber technology. Talk about being frustrated with toy instructions, this would drive you mad.

 The fun part was down the road about 50 yards and a comic like Jay Leno or Dave Letterman would have a field day with potential one-liners. The white tent must be different than the blue tent that was still up from a couple of days ago. Note the orange cooler sitting in the center with four orange cones surrounding it! That cooler has got to have a six-pack of Millers! 

Randy Travis Fans

Yesterday afternoon, I went out to The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano to see Randy Travis' Tour Bus. The trip was for me personally. However, after sitting in my car and watching fans come out of nowhere and walk up to the bus, take out their iPhone and snap one,sometimes two, images of the bus,  struck me how  deeply this area cared about the country singer. He  lives on a ranch  a few more miles from the hospital. It was something to witness in person.

The people  of Tioga , about 800 total, are praying for his recovery following the initial heart condition and then stroke that he suffered. So, while I said that my trip was a personal one initially, after witnessing the number of fans that came to photo his bus while I was there, helped to make the decision to take a couple of images and post them  for his fans that could not come in person.

 May the Lord hear the many prayers and help him recover fully from his health issues.

The Tour Bus of Country Singer, Randy Travis.

 The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano  just a few yards west of where Travis' bus is parked.

Color at the High 5

Two new school buses heading to the bus barn to be ready for a new school years in August

Just like their slogan,"We cover the earth", This moving billboard on the 5th level of the Dallas High 5 covers the ad world from the ground up.

A pop-up tent in the middle of 16-lanes is perfect for workers breaks.

Ready for work, parking was not a problem from these gentlemen. Use the closed HOV lanes on the LBJ

Once in a great while, being on foot does have its advantages. While my car was in a 2-hour free parking lot after an errand, it was time to get out my camera and walk an area that is difficult to have access. That too, was the present of a genie and I took advantage of the opportunity. Much to my own surprise, there were some unusual and/or colorful images waiting to become images.

The Circus is Coming

 

The Circus is coming

 

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The Circus is coming to town July 31 thru August 16.

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Squirrel for Lunch

An amazing 40 minutes watching the hawk eat. I was photographing the Robinson-Ransbottom pottery piece and I heard this screeching call. I found this very large hawk in the tree. As I got a bit closer, the hawk launched into a long silent glide across a soccer field to a small grove  of trees. Between the trees and the street, there was the hawk on the ground with a fresh kill at about 30 yards. Patiently, and about 40 minutes later, the hawk let me get within 5-yards while eating. Not wanting to drive this beautiful bird off its kill, I turned away and walked back to the car. As I drove by where I had been, the hawk was still eating. There was another hawk in the area calling out but this hawk payed no mind to the other's pleas.

New Boats at the Mandalay Dock

New pedal boats with red canvas top covers (retractable)are now docked on Lake Carolyn at Las Colinas. You rent by the hour and can pedal into the canals and follow the canals under the bridges and come back out on the lake.Or,you can come back the way you came into the canals. The disturbing thing about all of this is that there is a sign posted that requires you to get a license from Dallas County Water Reclamation for "commercial" photos. Just so happens, there is a little photography business at the beginning of the canals on the west side of Las Colinas Blvd. Hum! Sounds a bit like a money-grabbing scheme if there ever was one.And here is the kicker. It's a permit--not a license fee--good only for the day that you are shooting pictures and the one-time use permit cost a whopping $50.00!

  Paul, the Administration Manager at Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District was still out to lunch at 2:10 PM and not available for additional information.

 I'd like to post a picture of the new boats but I am a senior citizen and I've been warned by the AARP not to fall for schemes such as this against senior citizens. In lieu of the boats, I took a picture of the sign posted by the DURD!

Days in June

Mom and Dad(upper left)  introduced the two pups in the foreground (lower right).

UPDATE TO POST OF Saturday,June 15,2013.  The question: is it a muskrat or a nutria? The answer is in:

Muskrat is a North American rodent with webbed feet and dark brown fur.

Nutria is a South American rodent with webbed feet and dark brown fur.

What we have here is therefore, a North American rodent called a muskrat!  and since the initial image was posted, there is an update to that as well. Here it is