October 14-15, 1995: A Weekend at Possum Kingdom Lake
	September 24-26, 1995: Bob Barbour Visits Dallas
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Fred is at my house this weekend, and we decided on Sunday to take the bikes over to White Rock Lake to have a ride around the Lake. We've done this a number of times before, but today we are also going to stop at the Dallas Arboretum where we have a membership.

Fred has his new truck down this weekend, so we just laid the two bikes in the truck bed and headed over to our normal starting point at the northwest corner of White Rock Lake.

We went south on Inwood and then east on Mockingbird Lane all the way to Lawther Road- the small street that runs along the west side of the Lake. The parking area where unload the bikes is right at the northwest corner of the Lake.

In riding around the lake, we are usually on a paved walk that we share with pedestrians and joggers, so we have to go fairly slow and be careful- especially of kids. Serious bike riders (the ones in spandex) usually ride on Lawther Road where they can go faster since there are no pedestrians.

At the south end of the lake, the bike trail crosses the top of White Rock Lake Dam, heads downhill through a little forest and then crosses the spillway to Garland Road. The bike path/pedestrian walk then goes north along Garland Road until it turns back toward the Lake and follows East Lawther Drive up the east side of the lake.

But today, we went past East Lawther Drive and rode our bikes into the Arboretum. There, we locked them into the bike rack and then used our membership cards to go in and walk around. On pages devoted to visits to the Arboretum, I usually provide a map of the Gardens so you can see where the various pictures were taken, but today we didn't take enough, I though, to justify that. I won't even both with an aerial view, but just go right to the pictures.

Just inside the entry, Fred found these bees and flowers to photograph; I assume Fred knows what the flowers are but I don't.

As we walked down by the Fern Dell, we stopped at the lily pond:

We were catching some of the earliest Fall foliage and blooms, although things will be much more colorful at Texas Colors later in the month.

Passion Flower

Lay Family Garden Waterfall

I suppose we wandered around the Arboretum for an hour and a half before we went back to reclaim the bikes and continue on our way up the east side of White Rock Lake.

A short ways north of the Arboretum, at the edge of the Lake, Fred wanted me to stop so he could take a picture. He wanted to include the lake, the sailboats, me, and the cloud formations in the background.

The weather was clouding over, so we thought we'd just continue and finish the bike ride without much stopping. By the time we got back to the truck it was thoroughly overcast and it looked like it might rain. But we did make it back to the truck dry. As it turned out, it didn't actually until we had unloaded the bikes at home.

(Although I am creating this album page in 2015, I actually wrote the narrative for these few pictures about three weeks after our visit to the Arboretum- on October 23. That was the first day since the first of the month that it rained. While this may have seemed unusual at the time, I can say from the vantage point of 2015 that as the years passed, periods of drought in North Texas have gotten longer and longer, and in those periods when it does rain the storms have gotten more and more intense. This, it seems, is the effect of global climate change.)

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	October 14-15, 1995: A Weekend at Possum Kingdom Lake
	September 24-26, 1995: Bob Barbour Visits Dallas
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