Rowlett, Texas Photography Club Meetup

For November, let's go to East Texas and hope we might see some fall color (always a crap shoot). It's been awhile since we visited the Longview Arboretum and Nature Center and we commented we would like to come back again sometime in the Fall - well it's been 2.5 years so we're finally going back. That's 2.5 years more progress in building up this lovely garden. The entry fee is $3 for seniors or $5 adults; they may have a reciprocal agreement with Dallas Arboretum, but I figure they need the money and the fee is minimal so I don't even ask. The address is 706 W. Cotton St., Longview TX. Meet at the Rowlett DART Station parking lot near the area of Martin and Industrial at 9:00 am or at the Longview Arboretum about 11:00 - 11:15 am. We will probably spend at least a couple of hours there and then will head to lunch. As usual, we'll have a meetup time and will leave once everyone has returned to our meetup spot. Regular walk around lens should be fine.
For lunch, let's go to the Butcher Shop, a combination restaurant, bakery and meat market! The address is 102 Lehigh St., Longview. Since we'll be eating lunch after 1:00 pm, be sure and have a good breakfast or bring a snack to tide you over.
For those who want to do so, we can head a couple of miles into downtown Longview after lunch or just head home. That part can be decided when we see how we feel.
Hope to see you there and let's pray for some beautiful weather and fall color.

If you like downtown Dallas at night, art, lights, music, and interesting (maybe weird) experiences, I hope you'll join me to go to the Aurora Biennial in downtown Dallas. I've been to this a couple of times several years ago and it's very cool and fun.
Schedule:
6:00 pm - meet at the Rowlett DART Station
6:17 pm - leave on DART train
6:54 pm - arrive at Akard Street Station
7:00 pm - begin walk toward Aurora installations near Dallas City Hall
7:15 pm - arrive at Akard and Young near Information Tent
PLEASE NOTE: If you are not leaving from Rowlett and want to meet us at the Akard Station or at Akard and Young streets, you must comment where you will meet up with us; we will not wait if we do not know you are meeting us elsewhere.
Equipment:
Fast lens if you have one, wide angle, zoom, anything in between, tripod if you want to mess with it. This will be at night, but we will be shooting things that for the most part "light up" and, depending on how crowded it might be, a tripod could get in the way. We are going at the start of the thing, though, so hopefully the crowds will get there later in the evening as it runs from 7:00 pm - 1:00 am. If your tripod is easy to carry and doesn't get in the way if you can't use it, then bring it.
We can walk around the event and try to stay somewhat together or determine a time and place to meet back up should we get separated. I have included a link to the event, which does have a map of the layout. You are asked to Register to Attend (link at bottom right) and all it did was ask for my email to put me on the mailing list. I haven't gotten anything else other than a thank for you signing up. The event is free, but I'm thinking they want to get a count of how many to expect and may cut it off after a certain number of registrations, but I don't know for sure.
Once we've seen all we want to see, we can go find a restaurant or bar to get something to eat or drink for those who are interested or just head back, whatever the group consensus is.
Here is the link: https://dallasaurora.com/AURORA-Biennial-2024
Weather: If it happens to be very cold or raining, will probably cancel this. It's always a crapshoot in the winter with the weather, but mid-November usually isn't too extreme.