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June 18, 1996
A Visit to the Dallas Arboretum
On Sunday, we had breakfast with Jeffie at the Original Pancake House, and then took her over to the Arboretum for a stroll around.
Getting to the Dallas Arboretum
The Dallas Arboretum is not too far from where I live over on Inwood- I'd guess about six or seven miles as the crow flies (see the map opposite)- but you can't get there as the crow flies because White Rock Lake is in the way. So you can either go through town and wind your way around the south end of the lake or you can take Mockingbird over around the north side of the lake. Today, Prudence and Nancy came to my house and then we just took Mockingbird over to Buckner Boulevard to Garland Road and the Arboretum.
In this closer view, you can see the south end of White Rock Lake and you can pick out the bike trail that hugs the lake shore almost all the way around. At the south end is White Rock Lake Dam and spillway, which takes the overflow water and sends it under Garland Road to continue on down to the Trinity River.
The bike path used to cross the top of the dam, but for one reason or another, the bike path was rerouted a year ago, and now it goes through some parkland and playing fields south of the dam, across the spillway, up Garland Road for a ways, and then back north along the lake shore.
You can also see a closer view of the Arboretum in this picture, and can begin to pick out some of the pathways through the gardens.
Finally, in this close-up of the Arboretum itself, you can see most of the major features- including the parking area just off Garland Road, the new administrative buildings, the restaurant and gift shop (all right near the parking lot) and, off in the middle of the gardens, the DeGolyer house (the former residence of the family that donated the land for the Arboretum to the Arboretum Society.
You can also see the maze of pathways that criss-cross the gardens.
The Layout of the Dallas Arboretum
As you are probably already aware, I have a penchant in this photo album for tying together our pictures with other elements- such as maps, aerial views and various diagrams- so you can get a feel for where we were when a particular picture was taken. In addition to the map and aerial views above, I want to include a diagram of the Dallas Arboretum on this page, and on it I will mark the locations where today's few pictures were taken:
On the diagram above, there are three numbered red squares marking the places where we took pictures. To see any of the pictures and their short descriptions, just click on the squares. Fred also brought his panoramic camera with him, and towards the end of our visit he set it up on the tripod so he could get this nice picture of me, Jeffie and himself:
When we were done at the Arboretum, we dropped Jeffie off at her apartment as she was driving to Houston the next day on a mission for PolyGram Records. Fred and I went out to Prudence's, and the four of us, including Nancy, went to Tia's for dinner and then to see "The Rock."
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