Feb 25 2024

Keep Texas Beautiful: Beautify Texas Awards - Nominations Open (Feb. 5-March 22)

Feb 5 2024 - 8:00am to Mar 22 2024 - 5:00pm

The Beautify Texas Awards recognize efforts made by individuals and organizations to enhance their communities and protect Texas’ environment. These awards honor extraordinary volunteers, professionals, youth, educators, businesses, local/civic governments, organizations, and specific projects and programs. They are organized into two main categories, Individual Awards and Organizational Awards.

Dallas Arboretum: Dallas Blooms - Dallas (Feb. 24-April 8)

Feb 24 2024 - 9:00am to Apr 8 2024 - 5:00pm
Dallas Arboretum
8525 Garland Road
Dallas , TX

Dallas Blooms, the largest floral festival in the Southwest, returns February 24-April 8, with 500,000 spring-blooming bulbs, thousands of azaleas, hundreds of Japanese cherry trees and the all NEW living backdrops of sprawling plant walls. These six installations, placed throughout the garden, will feature over 10,000 plants covering 565 square feet.

Greater Fort Worth Sierra Club: FW Nature Center Hike - Fort Worth

Feb 25 2024 - 1:45pm
Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
9601 Fossil Ridge Rd Meet at Canoe Launch Parking Lot
Fort Worth , TX

We will hike a 4 to 5 mile section of the Riverbottom Trail. The canoe launch parking lot is the second parking lot after Shoreline Dr. curves to the right as you head toward the Greer Island trail and parking lot. There is a self-composting toilet as a reference point across the road from this parking lot.

Bring water, snacks, and raingear - depending on weather forecast.

You will need to pay an entrance fee at the gate as you enter the park.

No need to register with leader for hike — just show up. 

Leader: Claudia Blalock, (817)-307-4808 or claudia.blalock@att.net.

In the event of rain, hike will be cancelled and posted on Meetup.

No dogs or music please.