prairie point

Hackberries get no respect. “Trash trees” - that’s what they are usually called. “If you have a large one in your yard and it’s nicely shaped, then leave it. But never plant one.” That’s what one landscaper told me. She has a point. Hackberries can be really mis-shaped. […]

There is a little free neighborhood newspaper that comes every Friday morning. It is mostly fluff for real estate agents and local merchants, but it does have some intensely local news that would never make it in to the big city daily. One of their regular features is an interview and guess […]

Expect fewer posts the next couple weeks. Tricia and I are moving our home base out to our lakehouse. It’s taking a lot of our attention and there’s not much time for writing just now.

If you have read this journal for long you may have learned that the name comes from a long-defunct community called Prairie Point. The only remaining trace of that community today is a cemetery of the same name. When I was a boy there was an abandoned wood-frame church on the site also […]