Record Snowfall in Tyler

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Larry Lynch

NOT your typical Tyler snow!

No one I’ve talked to, including native Tylerites in their 80′s, remembers a snowfall like the one we experienced April 11th/12th, 2010. A month of the stuff would get really old, but it was beautiful for a day. Schools closed, so as I left the neighborhood at 8:45am headed to a closing I waved to throngs of schoolkids making snowmen and heading to the hills with their improvised sleds. At the title company I visited with the young couple buying their first home. They had already been out to their new house to build a snowman in the front yard and have a snowball fight.

I managed to grab a few shots and have added them to our front page seasonal slideshow but again this disclaimer…if you’re moving to Tyler don’t expect to see scenes like this often!

Blooms in February?

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Larry Lynch

A red maple in full bloom

I’m a photographer and winter is not my favorite season. My eye is drawn to color, and there are only so many scenes of grey and brown I can shoot. So last February I really enjoyed the unusually heavy blooms of the red maples. They seem to grow especially well in the creek bottoms and our neighborhood borders Shackelford Creek to our west. I walk it every morning with my dog.

I have shot the red maple many times in the fall, but this is the first time I’ve shot it in bloom.