The road itself felt like poetry as Marilyn guided every curve with Poppy. Towering trees arched overhead, transforming the drive into something almost enchanted, as though a magical adventure waited just beyond the next bend. Then, as if the forest wanted to offer us a gift, a river otter slipped across the road before us.…
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” There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton In Terry County, Texas on Highway 380 is a replica of Jesus’ Tomb. I have passed a hundred times, yet never stopped. On a super windy Friday, we stopped, we observed, and we were…
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Recently, on a roadtrip coming back from south Texas, I stopped in Mason long enough and grabbed this photo of their restored courthouse. What a magnificent little courthouse, that was almost no more. The original courthouse was built between 1909 and 1910. What you see is not the entire original courthouse, it’s a restored version.…
Read MoreShe scrambled under my feet while doing a field check. She was the first Texas horned lizard I have seen on Conservation Reserve Program land here in Texas. What a special moment we shared. Her looking at me and me looking right back at her. She was extremely curious with her head tilts and eye…
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Forgotten Winds 