I moved around a lot as a kid, and one of the placed I lived for a couple of years was Gilmer, Texas. I have lots of great memories of my junior high years as a Gilmer Buckeye. My favorite thing of all was the annual East Texas Yamboree. I loved seeing the Yamboree Queen […]
Jumping Hay Bales in East Texas
“But that’s the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You can leave East Texas, for Houston, for the Metroplex, for the Commonwealth, for New York, or Bonn or Tokyo or Kowloon; but you can never quite leave it behind.” ―Markham Shaw Pyle
Tumbleweed Snowman Picture
…Summer, long forgotten and forgiven gives you away. Presses you into the chain links of a cold high fence, In the City of Angels. Tumbleweed, you gathered no snow. But in threes, gathered together, the angels make you into a snowman. Your thorns painted white and your smile just so. With a hat and a […]