prairie point

A reader left a question in the comments about the picture in the banner. We have a cabin in the woods overlooking the lake. It’s a quiet peaceful lake, especially when the water is cool like it was this weekend. There were only a few fisherman on the lake in the early mornings. I heard they weren’t biting.

In case you were wondering Prairie Point is not the name of our property, or its location either. We don’t actually have a name for our place yet. We usually just call it “the lakehouse.”  I notice that a lot of people have names for their property. I guess the bigger a place is, the more likely it will have a name. Ranches and farms often have a name. This is the first time I have ever owned anything bigger than just a house on a lot. I have usually just called my home by the street it was on, as in “west main.” But Tricia and I started talking about a name for the lakehouse on the drive out there this time. We did not agree on one yet, but we are still thinking.

Prairie Point really is a place though. It was a community in Navarro County that ceased to exist about a hundred years ago. My mother’s family once had a farm near there, and there are several generations of my family in the old churchyard there. I have written about it a couple times here. You could say that the name represents a place of origin, as opposed to where I might be physically located at the moment.