The gem of the Texas Panhandle has been closed since April 2025. Doors locked. Lights still on. A travesty on many levels. I remember walking through those big front doors as a child with my dad. The dinosaurs amazed me most. Years later, I found myself sitting in front of a massive oil painting —…
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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.…
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Melany is the only friend where I have scared the sh*t out of her with my screams of seeing a ringtail cat! Seriously, the first time it happened she nearly drove off the road coming out of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. We are driving along in peace when all of a sudden on the dark…
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Came home yesterday and saw my purple bearded iris had bloomed. My heart smiled. This set of irises came from a patch in Foard County, Texas. Purple irises were planted long ago by the wives of early ranchers and farmers, especially those of Dutch or German descendant living here in Texas. My own great great,…
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Forgotten Winds 