If your first contact with a redbud tree is in summer or fall or winter, you won’t be impressed. It’s as twisted as a mesquite but without the likelihood of…
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Spring has arrived
Soon the ‘gators will bestir themselves, throw back their blankets of season-long snooze and work their way quietly through the rusty waters of Texas’ largest natural lake. As water temps…
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Few things say spring like a 40-degree diurnal swing, a sunny day, and kayakers on the water. Temperature this morning at Caddo Lake State Park was 24 degrees. This afternoon?…
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With temperatures in the teens, Caddo Lake State Park is closed to campers… icy roads and steep hills would preclude any emergency vehicles in or out. And, freezing precip always…
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Though the lovely woods are dark and deep, even the campers are caught up in the holiday spirit. Millie and I hope for you that your Christmas was even half…
Continue readingCaddo Lake State Park
Millie and I are encamped at Sawmill Pond, Caddo Lake State Park. We’ll over-winter here as hosts beside the most beguiling lakeside Park in Texas.
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After 7 months in Pennsylvania and some weeks traveling, I’m back with the Motopeeps for Friday Pie Day at Downtown D’lites on Kilgore. Glenn, Skip, me, Mark. Barry was absent,…
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A travel haikuurged by good friend James Draper:You can, just do you Near Memphis in rainDodging dead deer and truck tiresClutt’ring up my lane
Continue readingSo long, Willow Bay friends
BIll and Barb are regulars here, driving up from Blairsville, PA for a 3-day weekend as often as possible. Knowing this is the last weekend of my season, they piled…
Continue readingNearing the season’s end
By the end of every summer at Allegheny Reservoir, the insatiable demands of a power plant downstream have outpaced the Pennsylvania rain. Happily, the barren bottom of Willow Bay becomes…
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