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Archive for January, 2008

afternoon around a small town square

Posted: Saturday, January 12th, 2008 in current events | 2 Comments »

I took time off yesterday to spend a lazy afternoon on the square in the nearby town of Granbury. My sister-in-law had an enjoyable time at a wine bar there during her vacation in Texas last summer and she had sent us a gift card for the holidays.
Granbury is about an hour’s […]

mistletoe

Posted: Monday, January 7th, 2008 in nature and environment | 7 Comments »

There are a few live oaks around here but not so many as there are south of I20. I think this might be close to the edge of their range. Cedar trees are thick on the rocky hillsides where the land is too useless to bother with.
But mostly around here we have deciduous […]

winter

Posted: Sunday, January 6th, 2008 in nature and environment | 3 Comments »

The fall that I was 18 I moved from north Texas to a college campus in Houston.  September in Houston was unbelievably unpleasant.  Every day there was rainfall in the early afternoon followed by temperatures in the upper nineties. Walking to class was like walking in a steam bath.
But around the first week of October […]

 

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