| AROUND LUBBOCK, TEXAS and the WORLD
A variety of friends, acquaintances, and interesting sites to check out: Dos Puertos, Virtualubbock., original Dixie Chicks, Marketingtool, and Evidences. |
More Links
| Since I have varied interests, I find myself being stretched
in many
different directions doing many things more and more. Here are
links
to some of my friends, interests, and favorite sites. If you want to
find
out what I have been doing recently, be sure to check out my Field
Notes and/or Art Notes. |
| ART If you would like to view more art in person, go to the Museum of Texas Tech University. The Diamond M Galleries (including paintings by N. C. Wyeth), the Davies Gallery of Southwest Indian Art, and on a more scientific level, The Changing World: Dinosaurs, Diversity, and Drifting Continents. The touring exhibit of artwork by the actor Anthony Quinn is about over, but an exhibit of landscape paintings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, has just opened. It includes artwork spanning the last 500 years and includes artists such as Botticelli. It is an excellent exhibit and well worth taking the time to visit the museum. If you would like to view more art in Lubbock, Texas, go to the Underwood Center for the Arts, the Lubbock Garden and Arts Center, the International Cultural Center, and the Buddy Holly Center. If you are in Abilene, go to the Center for Contemporary Arts and The Grace Museum. Don't forget about the First Friday Art Trail. where you can visit unique gallery spaces like Hard Tops On the first Friday of each month a number of galleries (including most of the ones above) are open in the evening (maps and schedules may be picked up at any of the venues) and trollies can take you to many of the venues. You can also check out my Art Notes to see what art projects I have been working on and if I am exhibiting on the First Friday Art Trail. If you need photographic supplies go to Armadillo
Camera. For a wealth of photographic links to art sites and
to
informative sites check out my friend Joe
Miller's website. Joe is an excellent photographer and an
excellent friend who I have privileged to know and photograph with for
over two
decades.
Joe has an excellent website and many good links. I don't
want
to steal all his links and duplicate them, so go see Joe. Another
excellent photographer and friend is Glenn
Johnson. Check out some of Glenn's photography. Another
friend who I knew when she was getting started in photography and
paleontology is Beth
Davidow.
Beth now travels the world as a nature photographer. Another
friend who does excellent photography is Kim Brown. So check
them out. If you
would
like to visit some other photo websites, there is a wide variety that
you
might find of interest to be found at the Photography
Network. The last Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day was Sunday, April 27, 2008. You can view my 2008 submission at the 2008 Gallery or my previous images in the galleries for 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004. |
| You might find some of my artist/photographer friends
websites and
webpages interesting: Susan
Nall, Fal-Con, Carol
Howell, Meyers Pottery,
Paul Milosevich, Ann McDonald,
and Renee Steger Simpson.
MUSIC If you are looking for some local musicians to listen to, check out a couple of people I am pleased to call my friends, Lesley Sawyer and Andy Wilkinson. Lesley has her CD, Dirt, on sale. You should check out both of their webpages to see where they are performing this week. NATURE Two of my favorite places to go are Caprock Canyons State Park (Gretchen and I were there the last February) and Big Bend National Park (we were there last December). They are great places for photography, to hike around, and to contemplate your navel. If you are in Lubbock and want to hike, view some wildlife, and even learn something interesting; try the Lubbock Lake Landmark. |
| PALEONTOLOGY The Changing World: Dinosaurs, Diversity, and Drifting Continents, the Museum of Texas Tech's "Dino Hall". The exhibits include a number of fossils that originated from the Lubbock region, and some of these are not on exhibit any where else in the world. These paleontology sites may be of use to you: Petrified Forest
National Park, TMM
Paleontology Lab, UCMP
collections, CASC,
SAPE,
and the Bernard
Price Institute of Paleontology. The Museum of Texas Tech's Paleontology
Division website is up and running, including our personnel
pages. A very informative, interesting, and thought provoking
blog site is Bill Parker's Chinleana. Another new paleo
blog is Jeff Martz's Paleo Errata.You
can also
check out TTU geology alumni Rebecca
Hunt's website. It has lots of paleo information and
an exellent assortment of links. Check out Matthew Brown's
website, FossilPrep. It has
articles and discussion on paleo collections, preparation, techniques,
and tools. Very useful site. |
| BIRDING If you are into birdwatching you probably already know about the Texas Ornithological Society. The Llano Estacado Audubon Society covers birding in the South Plains. It is interesting to browse throught the Texas Bird Records Committee's site and see what has been seen. Another interesting bird group is SAPE. |
| AROUND LUBBOCK, TEXAS and the WORLD
A variety of friends, acquaintances, and interesting sites to check out: Dos Puertos, Virtualubbock., original Dixie Chicks, Marketingtool, and Evidences. |
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