Bluebonnets Aren’t Always Blue
One other discovery I made on this last trip to the Hill Country was a little cluster of white bluebonnets. We all enjoy the flood of bluebonnets in the Spring. And you may have heard of or have seen the pink bluebonnet that we Aggies prefer to call maroon, or as it...
The Rest of the Mesquite Tree and Wildflower Story
So to continue my story about the wildflowers and railroad track, I was told about a half mile down the track there was an old railroad trestle and yet more bluebonnets that would make for a nice picture. Well, I needed my daily walk anyway, and a half mile isn’t that...
Mesquite Trees and Wildflowers
Every year about this time the wildflowers come out in the Hill Country, and every year I tell myself I have enough bluebonnet and paint brush pictures. Every year the little devils seduce me once again, and I take yet more pictures. But this year I think I took as...
Painting is Therapy
We decided to sell our rent house, the one we bought and fixed up for Caroline and Colten when they moved back to Muleshoe. They didn’t live in it very long; Neil came along, swept her off her feet and whisked her off to Clovis. And that’s a good thing, but it left us...
Our Easter Cross
I know Easter is almost over, but I wanted to share how our Methodist church celebrated Easter today. Besides having Easter lilies and these calla lilies in the sanctuary, we also had a cross decorated with flowers. It started out like this, or almost like...
Tales From School–The Wild Thing Revisited
Driving home from Lubbock the other day I had to smile when Tone Loc sang about doin’ the wild thing on the radio because it took me back to the classroom and the first time I heard that song. I thought I’d share that story-and then I had a vague feeling I had already...
More History Comes to the Janes Ranch House
Dr. William Wallace, who inherited and owned the Janes Ranch House that we lived in briefly when we moved to Muleshoe, and which was moved into and became the centerpiece of the Muleshoe Heritage Foundation’s historic collection of structures, died last year. This...
Eddie the Eagle
Movies that make the money these days seem to be the darkest, dystopian, gloom and doom, comic book hero nightmares Hollywood can think up. Or, they are heavy on the message, fraught with serious acting, or had a bazillion dollars spent on special effects and state of...
The Quintessential Peanut Butter Sandwich
Back when I went to college, everyone was required to take a speech class as a freshman. Not a bad idea, but that’s another story. Anyway, I was having trouble getting into a topic for my final speech, which needed to be Oscar-worthy, and out of frustration I decided...
Meet Miss Siam
After we lost Sophie, Poopie, and the Peaches within five months of each other, it was as if we were being punished. All good cats do go to heaven, I am just sure, so I guess there were some positions to fill up there. But it hurt. We didn’t look for replacements...
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