Spring Colors in Dallas

I'm in Dallas for a few days, enjoying the gorgeous spring weather in between medical appointments.  I always stay at a hotel next to Bachman Lake City Park.   I enjoy walking around the lake and the location is fairly convenient to the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Clinics, which I where I come for healthcare that is not available in Belize.  Healthwise, everything looks good, but I do have to come back for a procedure on my left eye.  The vision in that eye has deteriorated in the last 6 months to the point that it gets hard for me to read or use the computer unless I make the font pretty large.  And the left eye image conflicts with what I see in my right eye, so it pretty much makes me crazy!  Problem diagnosed now and a simple(-ish) solution, if eye surgery can ever be called simple.  I'll come back to Dallas for surgery  and hopefully can get it scheduled before the weather in Texas gets super hot!  A few photos below to share the beauty of spring in Dallas.

Can you see the turtles on the log?  I also saw some very large fish in the water.  This is the shallow end of the lake where the stream comes in.  I can almost see the turtles from the window in my hotel room.

Texas is known for its roadside primroses - here are lakeside primroses.

These colors look like autumn!  I think this is a Japanese maple.

Lakeside flag irises.

A closer view.

The weather has been delightful - cool at night and low 70sF (~22C) as the daytime high.  Still, I will be happy to get back home on Thursday.

Dallas in July

I go to Dallas for my medical care - that's where I had my shoulder evaluated.  I started going there in 2016 for cataract surgery and was very pleased with the care I received, so decided to get all my healthcare there.  I always stay at a hotel that is near Love Field, where SW Airlines flies, and not too far from DFW.  The hotel is  adjacent to Bachman Lake City Park, which gives me a nice place to walk and run.

Sunrise behind Bachman Lake.  Love Field Airport is along the far shore on the right.  Hotel is waaaay back around a bend on the lake at the left.  Took this shot from atop the dam at the west end of the lake.

My friend Vivian came to stay with me for this trip since I had to have eye surgery (removal of an epiretinal membrane that was distorting the vision in my right eye).  The surgery was easy and I only had to rest for a day.  Vivian and I decided to go to some museums and escape the heat.  Dallas has some lovely museums.  The photos below are from the Dallas Museum of Art.  I guess I was still a little wonky from the surgery, plus I had a patch over one eye, so I didn't get details from the exhibits.

Huge stone with cores cut out of it.  Boring, not boring.

Neon house.  Such a cool vibe.

Woman hanging clothes on the line on a windy day.  I like the shadow.

My favorite was an installation of Dale Chihuly's Hart Window glass sculpture.

HUGE installation, For scale, those are double doors at the bottom, center.

This was installed in 1995 and at the time these were the largest pieces of glass ever blown.  Even with just 1 eye, I couldn't miss them!