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Dallas: There’s no Place like Home!

Me, posing by a peace sign sculpture in the Victory Park district of Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)

After more than six weeks of travel, it feels good to be back home. Sometimes the sites of home are so familiar that its refreshing to see them in a new way. I did just that during a Sunday morning walk with my dear friend Marion. We moseyed our way from the Cedars through downtown to the West End and the Victory Park areas of home…Dallas, Texas.

Enjoyed a Sunday morning walk with Marion Marshall from the Cedars through downtown to the West End and the Victory Park areas of Dallas. Marion and I have been friends for some 40 years. (June 2, 2019)
The old red brick courthouse covered in scaffolding by the John F. Kennedy Memorial in downtown Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
Elm Street, considered the Dallas County Historical Plaza, in downtown Dallas, Texas, with the infamous school book depository, to the far left, where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shot that killed President John F. Kennedy. (June 2, 2019)
The newly constructed Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on Houston Street in the West End district and near downtown Dallas, Texas, is dedicated to teaching the history of the Holocaust and advancing human rights. (June 2, 2019)
The West End district of Dallas, Texas. The West End is considered a historic district for its revitalized cluster of vintage warehouses. (June 2, 2019)
Ellen’s in the West End district of Dallas, Texas, where Marion and I took a break and enjoyed a wonderful Sunday breakfast. (June 2, 2019)
The West End district of Dallas, Texas. The West End is considered a historic district for its revitalized cluster of vintage warehouses. (June 2, 2019)
The West End district of Dallas, Texas. The West End is considered a historic district for its revitalized cluster of vintage warehouses. (June 2, 2019)
The West End district of Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
The West End district DART – Dallas Area Rapid Transit – station close to downtown Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
The high-rise Victory Park area of Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
The Victory Park district of Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
A waterfall park in the Victory Park district in Dallas, Texas. According to a sign, the Victory Park district was once part of a rail yard, an old power generation plant, a huge center-old grain silo and an urban garbage dump. Victory Park is an example of how a formerly un-usable, off-limits piece of property can be transformed into a 75-acre urban mixed-use development. (June 2, 2019)
A waterfall park in the Victory Park district in Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
The Victory Park district of Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
Me, posing by a peace sign sculpture in the Victory Park district of Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
The American Airlines Center and WFAA-TV studio (to the right) in Dallas’ Victory Park district. (June 2, 2019)
A close-up of the American Airlines Center, a sports and entertainment venue in Dallas. It is home of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and the Dallas Stars hockey team. (June 2, 2019)
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
The bronze sculpture at the Rosa Parks Plaza at Dallas’ West End DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) Station depicts the Divil Rights legend, Rosa Parks on a bus bench. The life-sized statue depicts Parks’ courageous act of quiet defiance. The water wall in the background, made of black granite, features a quite from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech. This plaza serves as a symbolic link between public transit’s past and its future. (June 2, 2019)
A close-up of the Rosa Parks sculpture at the Rosa Parks Plaza at Dallas’ West End DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) Station, also close to downtown, depicting the Civil Rights legend, Rosa Parks on a bus bench. (June 2, 2019)
The Rosa Parks Plaza near the West End in downtown Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
A few weeks ago while traveling in Prizren, Kosovo, I came across trees, the trunks, covered in colorful crochet doilies. So, seeing these rainbow-colored knitted tree covers on Main Street in downtown Dallas by the Belo Garden, was just exciting. Thank you Dallas Yarn Bombers for your colorful and loving creations. #DallasYarnBombers (June 2, 2019)
My former work stomping grounds, the A. Macro Smith Federal Building in downtown Dallas, Texas. I spent 24 of my 28 years, working for the U.S. Department of Labor, in this building. It’s close to the convention center and across the street from Pioneer Plaza’s cattle trail sculptures. (June 2, 2019)
The sculptures of the Pioneer Plaza in Dallas, Texas, were created by artist Robert Summers to commemorate the 19th century longhorn Texas cattle drives through Austin, Waco and Dallas until around 1867. (June 2, 2019)
Pioneer Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
Pioneer Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
The sculptures of the Pioneer Plaza in Dallas, Texas, were created by artist Robert Summers to commemorate the 19th century longhorn Texas cattle drives through Austin, Waco and Dallas until around 1867. This is one of the trail rider sculptures. (June 2, 2019)
The City Hall of Dallas. (June 2, 2019)
A mural by the Lorenzo Hotel in Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)
A rolled-up 42-feet-tall umbrella sculpture in Dallas, Texas, that bisects Akard Street’s downtown entrance to the Cedars. (June 2, 2019)
A giant bowler hat sculpture in Dallas, Texas, in the Cedars district. (June 2, 2019)
The Jack Evans Police Headquarters building of the Dallas Police Department, completed in March 2003 in the Cedars district or area near downtown Dallas. (June 2, 2019)
South Side on Lamar apartments in the Cedars district of Dallas, Texas, was the old Sears building. It is located across the street from the Dallas Police Department’s Jack Evans Headquarter. (June 2, 2019)
A mural of South Side on Lamar in South Side on Lamar in the Cedars district of Dallas, Texas. (June 2, 2019)