Shoal Creek Crossing
It finally rained after almost a month, so I took a walk in the early evening. I walked down to Shoal Creek Boulevard and decided to cross over just to see if there was any water in the creek. As I came up to the 38th Street Bridge, I saw that a trail led down from the sidewalk under the bridge - as many times as I've gone by there, I had never noticed it. So I followed the trail, which went under the bridge. On the other side of 38th Street, there is a beautiful trail that crosses over the creek at several points. There are signs that mark early settler's homes and dinosaur fossils and an old concrete bridge next to the street bridge on 34th Street that I didn't know existed. The picture shows one of the crossing points past 34th Street, right near an old pavilion.

The trail continues all the way down to Town Lake. I can't wait to take a longer walk once the weather is cooler. It's always one of life's unexpected pleasures to discover something in your backyard that you didn't know existed. But all too often the reason you discover these things is because you forget to look - you fall into workaday patterns and so much of what exists around you becomes invisible, simply because you forget to look.

I need to start looking more.