Penn Farm In Black And White

October 21, 2010

As I wandered around Penn Farm last weekend with my camera in hand, I tried to imagine life there in the 1800s, but that wasn’t easy with blue striped tents and families wandering everywhere. As I looked at the pictures I took, I decided to try a different point of view: black and white. I [...]

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A Harvest Of Fun At Penn Farm Festival

October 17, 2010

Penn Farm Agricultural History Center, at Cedar Hill State Park, is a delightful glimpse of the past. It’s a farmstead that was first settled in 1854 that has been preserved by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. I didn’t get enough of it this weekend as I wandered around the place during the Harvest Heritage [...]

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Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburger is a Top 10

September 21, 2010

Do y’all have a favorite burger place? I’m talking about the one that causes you to salivate when you think about one of their burgers … don’t even try to mention McDonald’s or Burger King. If you do, you will make me weep for you and your pitiful choice of hamburger. When we think about [...]

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Is Lula B’s Cool or Pimpadelic?

September 16, 2010

When we saw the sign, we screeched to a halt to go shopping. How in Thunder were we supposed to resist shopping at a place that advertised, “Cool Stuff for Cool People?” After all, Mr. Tucker and I are “pretty cool,” if I do say so myself. Lula B’s East, near downtown Dallas at 2639 [...]

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Experiencing The Dallas Farmer’s Market

September 15, 2010

Elbowing my way through the mass of people at The Dallas Farmer’s Market, I could only think, “This is like grocery shopping at The State Fair!” It had the crowds, the lines, and the noise … without any thrilling rides, decadent corny dogs, or fried Frito pie. There was a vendor selling some very tempting [...]

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Paragliders Hanging By Threads

September 5, 2010

We saw them floating through the sky from Interstate 35 near Lewisville, Texas. I gasped because they seemed perilously close to the power lines. “They look like they are closer than they are,” my husband assured me. They were powered paragliders. In a field, I could see where they had launched. It looked like another [...]

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Like The Pied Piper

August 9, 2010

On the ninth floor of the Baldwin Hotel, near Union Square in San Francisco, I prepared to go to sleep for the night. However, when I walked near the window I heard a haunting melody. Someone was playing a saxophone outside. Like a child drawn to the music, I grabbed my camera to venture outside [...]

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Fort Bragg Boasts Interesting Sight Seeing

August 6, 2010

I had no idea that Fort Bragg had a shopping district about which to boast. Although we have driven through the town many times, we rarely get off of Shoreline Highway to explore. I have told y’all time and again that you have to leave the beaten path to find the treasures of a town, [...]

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Where The Locals Eat

August 5, 2010

What’s your favorite part of traveling? Mine, hands down, is food. I enjoy trying new restaurants … the ones the locals consider good. I look for three things as indicators that it might be a good place to eat: A different kind of cuisine than I can get in my hometown. A line at the [...]

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Who Do You Want To Be?

July 28, 2010

As a child I always envied our neighbor, Ruthie Walkendorfer. She was, in truth, an unlikely source of envy. As I remember her she was a small, very self assured child with dark hair that framed her face like a bubble. Her black eyeglasses were almost as big as she was, with lenses as thick [...]

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Long Gone

July 12, 2010

Perhaps I expected to see remnants of my Grandfather’s farm in Styx … although I knew it couldn’t look as it did in the pictures that have survived. This photograph of Granddaddy and his oldest children must have been taken in the summer of 1924, since my mother is not in the picture. She came [...]

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Calaboose

July 7, 2010

If you don’t know what a “calaboose” is, then you are lucky! It’s also known as “The Slammer,” “The Brig,” “The Coop,” “The Jug,” “The Pokey,” “The Clink,” “The Joint,” “The Big House.” It’s a jail! This building is in Kemp, Texas … so you might want to mind your manners when you pass through [...]

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Bridge To Nowhere

July 3, 2010

No, it doesn’t have anything to do with Gravina Island in Alaska. It’s a decrepit old bridge that the highway department “parked” in a meadow near Kemp, Texas. It called my inner child to come and play. If you click it, you can see a larger version. My inner child squealed, “Let’s play!” while my [...]

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Assorted Photos

June 16, 2010

I’m just going to share some pictures with you today. It’s a disjointed collection from our trip last week. I always have the camera with me, and we snap pictures of odd things that catch our eyes. Most of them are ones that I will never use for a post, but I like them. Instead [...]

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That’s Not Enough

June 15, 2010

When I am turned loose in the zoo that is his adopted city, my son thinks that I am the one who needs a keeper. Possibly he is right. I adore San Francisco. I can’t get enough of it, but my “country” ways don’t necessarily fit with life in The City. My learning curve, when [...]

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Mixed Media

June 1, 2010

The ruins of what must have been a gasoline service station long ago beckoned us to stop as we drove down U.S. Highway 81 in Montague County. The “town” was called Stoneburg, and this building seemed fitting. Its charred walls seemed to reach plaintively for the sky. Those walls intrigued us; we could see from [...]

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Cosmic Café Is An Out Of This World Restaurant

May 1, 2010

Now, y’all know that I was born and raised in The Lone Star State. I am 5th generation Texan, and with roots so deep in my native soil there are some things that you can automatically assume about me. No, you can not assume I ride a horse, tote a gun, and am a redneck [...]

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Flaming Fajitas At La Familia

April 25, 2010

You might think that it is absolutely a coincidence that the Fort Worth Fire Department showed up at La Familia Restaurant this last weekend. Is it? Perhaps they know that La Familia has the hottest fajitas in town! Right at the table, the waiters pour tequila over the meat and flames it. This is just [...]

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Good Golly, Miss Molly’s Is Haunted!

April 24, 2010

When we arrived at Miss Molly’s Bed and Breakfast, on Exchange Street in Fort Worth, I told the innkeeper that we wanted to seek the ghosts that haunt the place. “Oh,” she chirped. “Then, we need to close all the Bibles. I keep an open Bible in every room to tell the ghosts who is [...]

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D.M.V. Means: Darned Masterful Virtuoso

April 22, 2010

Y’all probably think that it’s no fun at all to stand in the line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, don’t you? If you think that, you aren’t doing something right. You probably stand there with a scowl on your face, tapping your foot, and checking your watch. Every now and then you heave a [...]

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