I didn’t manage to explore the east Texas town of Emory during our brief overnight visit last June. One reason was the oppressive heat and humidity — and the other was that our main reason for being there was to check out Lake Fork, a famous bass-fishing area just down the road. According to Google, the town’s population is just […]
I didn’t get going as early as I should have this morning, but I stopped by Rodman Slough Park (on the north end of Clear Lake) to say hello to the ospreys and revisit one of my favorite very short hikes. It was wildly overgrown and I had to pick my way through Scotch broom, star thistle, berry bushes, and […]
I always enjoy the scenery driving through northern New Mexico, although there never seems to be enough time to stop and explore. Our only reasons for pausing at the El Malpais National Monument Visitor Center were that we needed a rest stop and it was time for lunch; but it was a wonderful chance discovery and one that I would […]
Some images from our hike through the Bob Jones Nature Center and Preserve to the south shore of Grapevine Lake in Texas. We were there this past June — right before the record-breaking heat wave — and while we did suffer a bit of warm weather and high humidity (which we’re not used to), we really got very lucky, weather-wise. […]
To all the folks who, like me, are in the U.S., I don’t know about you but my neighborhood got pretty boisterous last night. It seemed like everybody in this part of town was out in the streets shooting off mortars and cannons for several hours — and from what I see on the local news, it wasn’t only in […]
Since we’re about to celebrate Independence Day, July 4th, in the U.S., I thought today I would share another handful of images from my vintage 1940s photo album. These are all black-and-white prints, with many of them professionally shot and sold as souvenirs. That’s the case with the pictures I’ve chosen for today; along with a few general views of […]