After having lived somewhere that gets really cold – the kind of humid cold where it can sometimes hurt to breathe – and have that cold stick around for weeks and months, I’ve definitely embraced being a summer girl. I love sunshine, warm days and warm evenings, long days and…
I was wrong. And in this case, I am happy to admit to it. I was wrong about fall leaves in Dallas. I remembered very little coloring, because after all, the joke is that North Texas doesn’t have a fall. We have summer, more summer and then finally winter, with…
Thank you, Texas, for the absolutely perfect day last weekend! The temperature was in the 80s with sunny, clear skies and even a little bit of a breeze. If you weren’t at the State Fair‘s final weekend, then it was the best day to be at Reverchon Park for the…
That’s right. There are teddy bears hiding in a Dallas park. Or more specifically, teddy bear sculptures. The sculptures were presented in 1995, and I only just found out about them this year. I forget even how they came up, but my sister casually asked if I knew about the…
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.” – Shakespeare Macbeth (4.1)
Last night, it smelled like Thanksgiving! I know, I know. It’s early, but Texas had an influx of fall weather: cool, overcast, rainy. It was the perfect weather to be curled up inside reading (and finally getting around to reading Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow) with something hot, like…