I guess I’ve always had a respect for and been a lover of the past…times past, and things made for a purpose in times past. So, there it sat, the remains of that old smoke shack, pieces of corrugated tin, with smoke hole and all, in my FRONT YARD!!!
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
An Alien’s Death (title subject to change)
Daisy and the old possum taught me a lesson we all should pay attention to these days — all is not always as it first seems, so take a closer look when you watch those late night “get rich” infomercials and those pessimistic commentators that think the economy is totally dead to the world…it may or may not be so.
The Three Toms
Although we are all very different animals, we have found an interest, no a fascination and an appreciation in how different we are from each other.
Country Living – Coffee’s On Here
Life continues and leaves it’s markers, and sometimes it’s as stand-ins for people and places admired and remembered.
Thoughts on Fall and Poison Ivy
On one of the larger, and I’m sure older oak trees, I could see a vine of poison ivy that all through the spring and summer had slowly made it’s way from the ground up round and round the oak, working it’s way out of the shade provided by the tree skyward to the bright rewarding sunlight.
Rare Texas Snow
Year before last there was a snow at the ranch that was almost mystical, BIG, BIG GIANT flakes drifted down and hung from the trees in great clumps looking like God’s Christmas tree ornaments, there was a damp wet foggy mist all around, a little like today.
