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check this out i was driving right on the edge of the storm last night



sorry i have a thing for great sky pics

 

Hehe, way out on the far side of Ft. Worth, eh? That's a good hour and 15 minute drive from my end of town.

 

on that note, thank you for keeping all the hail over yonder
I did get up to visit the indoor outhouse last night, it was coming down a gullywasher.....then I heard it storming outside! :happy097

cool, that is one cool thing about having no trees, you can see for ever and see the cool weather forming, but I'll keep my trees thanks

 

There are actually a lot of trees in the Dallas area, though they do thin out a bit on the Fort Worth side. The highways in the metroplex are just so massive though, it's like being out on the plains.

I was thinking about how big the DFW area is and decided to compare it to the size of Rhode Island. It's pretty close.

 

I just left work.... and was in complete shock.... 80 and sun! Wow... Look out the window Ray, you might have sun too!

 

yeah, there are lots of trees in the area, just that when I'm there I'm almost always in the areas (I-30 area mainly) without many trees.
Everytime we go to Texarkana, I complain it's looking more and more like Dallas - all the new highway and road construction, service roads becoming one-way (I HATE that!), and fewer and fewer trees all around.....
before you get the wrong idea, I am by NO means a "tree-hugger", but I do like seeing trees, they have an important role, and look nice, and places you're familiar with that always had trees now look desolate without them

 

I'm no hippie myself, but I do enjoy nature. I like trees so much that I have some in pots on my patio (I live in an apartment.)

The really cool thing around here is when you get up in a tall building (like a bank tower or hospital tower) and look to the north (toward the suburbs). The city is surprisingly green.

 

Does being a member of the nation arbor day foundation make me a tree hugger?

 

It's a major problem in my opinion but whatta ya gonna do.

We moved outside the "Big" city or DFW area but still not to far away for work. Very nice.

This is what is behind my property line.....

 

Now that's the Texas life.

 

yes.

 

lol I became a member because I have trees planted in a national forest that was damaged in honor of my mom and in memory of my grandma every mother's day and being a member makes it cheaper to buy her flowering trees for the yard.

 

I have some trees growing in pots on my apartment deck as well.. OK 5 gallon buckets.. but its the same idea. A redbud and a white pine... Just put them out there this spring so the are little more than sticks with leaves/needles...

 

Hello kiddies. I almost made it in here to post yesterday, and then got nailed w/ a complicated case that took the rest of the day. Lovely.

Anyway I'm here now, and I see miss Jen is back! How did finals go?

I've been working the same exercise machines at the gym for a year now w/ no problem. Lately though I feel like I've been kicked by a mule every morning after a workout. Wonder what that's all about?

 

If I was forced to live in the DFW area (nothing again't, I'm just not a big city person), I'd try to choose the Plano/Richardson/McKinney (Mesquite could be OK, simply because the name is pretty cool) area, or just past Fort Worth in Weatherford (have family friends over there)

 

My only real tree is a Japanese Red Maple in a fairly large pot. I'm starting to trim and train it like a bonsai. All of the small bonsai I have had over the years have died to the heat of the Texas summer (and my neglecting to water them every single day.) I also have a couple of small palm trees in large pots, but that's just not the same.

 

Step 1) don't ride mule to gym
Step 2) don't ask mule to spot for you
Step 3) don't kickbox with mule
Step 4) don't laugh at mule in shower

 

I lived in Bedford for a year. It was ok. The mid-Cities are more laid back and scenic, but the whole DFW area is just too congested. Frankly Phoenix metro has some of that same sprawl now on a lesser scale. Glad I'm leaving it behind too. I like a city that ends and turns into country before a 1/2 hour of driving is up.

 

Sheppy! I missed you finals went pretty awesome all things considered. For my bio final I spent 20 hours in a library straight and made aprox 370 index cards all for a final that was 2 hours away when I was done, I kicked it's ass too... 13 points above the average. Finished off the semester with an alright 3.4, I need to work on it but not a bad foundation.

 

I actually moved from north-central Dallas out to the north-eastern chunk of Richardson after I changed jobs about a year ago. It's so much nicer on the wild edge of the 'burbs. (especially when you work in the 'burbs ) It's a weird spot because it's an odd extension of the city between Plano, Garland, and Murphy and isn't even in the same county as the rest of Richardson.