Joy Donovan
Joy Donovan is a contributing writer for CandysDirt.com covering the Midcities and Fort Worth.
A week of rain receded long enough to let a Mid-Cities housing nonprofit bring sunshine to a very deserving family in need of home repair help. The North Texas nonprofit 6 Stones celebrated its 900th home repair at 10:30 a.m. Friday without a single raindrop. Local city council members, civic leaders, corporate sponsors, volunteers, and…
Looking for those water people. They love water. They want to live on the water. Gosh, they probably even drink water. This house even says what it’s all about with its address: 8521 Lake Country Dr. in Fort Worth. It’s mere minutes from Eagle Mountain Lake and all the boating, skiing, and fishing fun found…
This time of year, walking through the Fort Worth Botanic Garden or Dallas Arboretum is an absolutely lovely way to spend an afternoon. The flowers are blooming, the trees are leafy, and the grass is green and lush. Who doesn’t want to linger there? Who wouldn’t like to just live in the middle of all…
You can’t get much more all-American than a flag flying high from the front of a house. Add a brick sidewalk marching up the steps, past carefully landscaped front beds, up to an expansive porch with chairs for rocking, and what All-American home-shopping person’s heart wouldn’t beat a little faster? Check your heart rate upon…
Sometimes it’s time for a nip and tuck for those so inclined to look in the mirror and want to fix a few things. Maybe a facelift to smooth out the wrinkles and define the contours. Well, sometimes a shopping center needs to go through a little smoothing and redefining on its own. An aging…
