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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I’m Too Jaded For The Fort Worth Stockyards

April 21, 2010

When people visit from out of town, the Fort Worth Stockyards is NOT the first place I want to take them. In fact, I avoid taking them there unless they whine … and bribe me with bacon … chocolate … money. I know that if you aren’t from Texas you think that this place is [...]

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A Wild Kid’s Festival in Galveston

April 8, 2010

A festival for children is always fun, but it’s doubly so when I get paid to attend it! That’s my “good” for this Only The Good Friday. Make me tell stories at a festival? As Br’er Rabbit would say, “Please, Br’er Fox, don’t throw me in that brier patch.” Ostensibly I’m heading to Galveston, Texas [...]

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An Easter Blog Hop for Charity

March 24, 2010

Do y’all remember the thrill of holidays when you were a child? Last Easter, I “stalked” this little man with my camera while he was on his first Easter Egg hunt trying to capture the image of his excitement. Adorable, isn’t he? Don’t we wish we felt that same delight and excitement all the time? [...]

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The Best Thing About A Carnival

March 19, 2010

Do you ever have a carnival come to town and set up on the parking lot of the mall? I don’t remember them from when I was a kid, because I think my parents didn’t drive near them. They didn’t want their four urchins begging to stop and ride the ferris wheel! Heck, we got [...]

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Reflecting on Caldwell County Courthouse

March 10, 2010

I adore old courthouses. I marvel at the care that was taken a century or more ago to build the government seat. Courthouses built in the late 1800s, even those built in tiny towns, often have lovely architectural embellishments. Have you noticed that most government offices we build these days are sterile, antiseptic structures (with [...]

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Shadows From Moonlight

February 28, 2010

The “Moonlight,” of course is just from the words on the window. I enjoyed the window dressing in this tiny theater advertising their performance of “Moonlight and Magnolias. The shadows on the curtains from the writing on that window intrigued me, and I tried to capture it in a photo. If you want, you can [...]

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Snow Art is Ephemeral

February 13, 2010

I couldn’t resist heading out to take more pictures of snow. Once it is a day or two old, it loses much of its magic, but perhaps you can still imagine it. This is what it looks like in my neck of the woods. I wish I had taken a night picture of the courthouse, [...]

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Jelly Vendor

January 25, 2010

Driving the Texas highways (which is my neck of the woods), there are often vegetable stands in the spring and summer that tempt me to stop to peruse their offerings. Still, I was surprised to see a truck at a highway intersection in midwinter offering Mahaw jelly. When the man waved at me, I decided [...]

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Floating In Memories

January 19, 2010

Close your eyes and remember a trip to your grandmother’s house. Wait … hold on … don’t close them yet! Read the post first. I want you to do some visualizing, but I want you to know where we are going with it. You can even use this as a writing prompt, if you like. [...]

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A Different Spin On Menus

January 18, 2010

Sometimes restaurants go to great lengths with their decorations to distract you from the fact that the food is inferior. That was not the case on Friday night. Our menus were handed to us encased in old album covers. The menu items were printed on labels that were stuck to old vinyl records inside. Click [...]

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A Hand-some Bowl

January 12, 2010

My beloved husband knows how to worm his way into my heart. Since he is aware that I collect “hands,” he got me the perfect gift: A handy bowl. Actually, “handy” is stretching it a bit. It isn’t for use in serving food, it’s just decorative. But, oh! How decorative it is! Now, I have [...]

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Tattered Lace Curtains

January 10, 2010

On a recent walk, before the weather got so cold, we ventured into the Solana complex near Southlake. Years ago I often exercised on the hiking trail they had for their employees. No. I didn’t work there, but no one ever stopped me. That’s where we saw the beautifully entwined trees that I photographed for [...]

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Are We Addicted To Cell Phones?

January 5, 2010

Do y’all think that we spend too much time on those cell phones of ours? Sometimes it seems like folks talk on them all the dadgum time. This fella was riding in a parade here in Denton (I showed you pictures of the North Texas State Fair Parade back in August), and he couldn’t stop [...]

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Lover’s Embrace

January 3, 2010

Sometimes I hear my Grandfather’s voice whispering stories inside my head. Yesterday, my husband and I took a walk and found two trees that had grown together. As we marveled at those trees, hugging like a pair of old lovers, Papaw’s slow East Texas drawl came through loud and clear. Pardon the length of it, [...]

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San Antonio At Night Is A Delight

November 9, 2009

When I started my series of posts called “my neck of the woods,” I didn’t want to talk about the Alamo, because that’s what every tourist knows. However, one cannot be in “The Alamo City” without snapping a picture of it. For those of you who don’t know The Alamo City, bless your hearts, that [...]

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The Potter’s Hands

November 1, 2009

I was fortunate this week to be able to watch a potter create his art. Although I took a pottery class in college, the skill eluded me (I dropped the class so it wouldn’t destroy my grade point average). Most of the few items I made were heavy enough to use as weapons and did [...]

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The Knight Studio in Kilgore, Texas

October 30, 2009

The internet constantly amazes me. I suppose it can be used for good or evil, but this is Friday, so I’ll focus on only the good. That isn’t hard so hard to do, is it? I enjoy having an encyclopedia at my fingertips, although I am sometimes overwhelmed at the massive amounts of information (and [...]

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Stepping Back in Time in Salado, Texas

October 28, 2009

As I travel south from Fort Worth to San Antonio, I often get my “mouth set” for a stop in Salado, Texas. It has been a resting place for traveler’s since long ago. This tiny town north of Austin on Interstate 35, was once bisected by The Chisholm Trail but before that the Comanche and [...]

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