Bald eagle on Lake Texoma
— the white head against the winter water.
Not only on a wall.
Bald eagle on Lake Texoma, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A reservoir at the bend of the Red River, big enough to hold its own weather and to draw bald eagles down from the north every winter. The dam at Denison was finished in 1944 and pooled 89,000 acres along the Texas and Oklahoma border. From November through February the eagles work the shoreline for shad, and the Hagerman refuge runs guided viewing tours when the weather holds.
The place, in three passes.
Lake Texoma sits on the Red River about 75 miles north of Dallas, formed when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the Denison Dam in 1944. The reservoir covers roughly 89,000 acres across the Texas-Oklahoma border, with about 580 miles of shoreline divided between Grayson County in Texas and Bryan, Marshall, and Love counties in Oklahoma. It is among the largest reservoirs in the Corps system and supplies flood control, hydropower, and water to the Dallas-Fort Worth and Sherman-Denison metropolitan areas. The dam itself stands 165 feet tall.
Bald eagles winter on Texoma from late November through February, with peak counts in late December and January. The lake supports a strong shad population, the eagles' primary winter food, and the open water above the dam stays unfrozen even in the coldest weeks. The Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas side runs guided eagle tours on winter Saturdays, and the Lake Texoma Association coordinates Eagle Watch events out of the Oklahoma side at Lake Texoma State Park.
The lake is reached most easily from US 75 north of Sherman or from Highway 70 east of Madill, Oklahoma. Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge, on the Big Mineral arm of the lake, runs a 4-mile auto tour loop and a visitor center open Tuesday through Sunday. Marinas, state parks, and Corps campgrounds ring the shore on both sides, and the federally managed lake is open at no charge for shoreline access, with day-use fees at developed sites. Hagerman covers about 12,000 acres.
