More Fort Worth

On March 3 I got together with an old university friend who has lived in Dallas for the past 20+ years.  She had never been to Fort Worth.  It seems that it's not the norm for people from the two cities to visit the neighbouring one (they are adjoined) very often, if at all.  Well, on this momentous day my friend took the commuter train to Fort Worth, and we strolled around downtown a bit.

Behind the convention center and just down the street from our hotel is the Fort Worth Water Gardens.  This was the most interesting feature, a waterfall down concrete step-like walls.  That is me at the bottom – a winding staircase of huge oversized steps allows visitors to enter the feature.  It's a little disorienting and scary, with the steep-sided waterfall all around, and the water rushing under the steps that have large gaps between them.  I made it though.  That is foam in the middle.

We went to a visitor centre, where they seemed rather surprised to see us.  They recommended a few sights, one of which was the courthouse.  This is looking up at a skylight window in the centre atrium:

Next we walked down to the site of the old fort, where the Clear Fork meets the West Fork of the Trinity River.

Looking back up at Downtown:

This is the ceiling of the old train station, the last destination on our mini-tour of downtown Fort Worth (the downtown isn't very big!):

The station itself is still in use, but the ticket hall has been decommissioned.  These are the doors out to the platforms:

This art is on the way to the platforms, it's in commemoration of the African Americans who worked to build the railway, and then worked as porters, and who now ride it as commuters:

March 4 it rained.  Ed was off in the afternoon and we visited the Sid Richardson Museum, which contains the western art collection that was owned and donated by the Texas oilman.  I didn't take any photos.

On March 5, I walked over to the Museum district and saw the Modern Art museum of Forth Worth, and the Kimball Art Museum.  On the way back, I took these photos of two older downtown buildings:

Next up, Ed and I rent bikes and hit the bike trails of Fort Worth.