January 2012

It’s been a while.

I’m not traveling as much as I once did resulting in fewer posts on this Backroads Photo blog. It doesn’t mean that I’m not working on my Texas photo book. Any trips taken now involve a cute little two year old and that can reduce opportunities for picture taking, interviews, and such. Yet it is important to involve him for learning. And he is such fun on our outings for he sees things that often pass me by.

This year my family has committed to visiting one museum a month. At first we stated we would visit Texas museums but being only a few miles south of Oklahoma I sure hate to miss out on the historical areas so close to home. Sometimes we take road trips north and find the loneliest roads of treasures of the Great Plains and Interior Highlands.

We continue to have day trips to national wildlife refuges and frequent Hagerman. Time of year is critical and that can be a hinderance to us for our own calendars are jammed up with scheduling that interfers with these outings. If its not that it is my husband’s allergies and his sneezing and congestion as I drag him across a field of blooming wildflowers in the springtime.

For now I plan my vegetable and flower gardens for 2011 and expect results. It has not been decided if I will keep this blog going with new posts. I’d like to continue to blog but have not yet focused on a particular theme. I’ll continue to read yours. Thank you all for visiting and staying with me all these years.

 

Traveler’s Hotel, Denison, Texas

Careful I am of writing about images I post on the web when researching other websites, photo galleries, etc. I won’t write too much about the subject of an image such as the one shown above. There are all kinds of stories, legends, and wild fabrications written by people who “claim to know” all over the internet.

Texasescapes.com shows to be pretty accurate with Texas history. According to Texasescapes
Built by a German sea captain named Ernst Martin Kohl, who opened it as a grocery store and saloon in 1893, it was converted into a hotel for railroad travelers in the 1930′s. You can go to the webpage to read more about this interesting structure. It’s occupancy is unknown by me although I’m sure if I ran across the street to the history Katy Rail Museum, there might be someone who knows the comings and goings of individuals associated with that property. It appears that someone is managing it for there are flower pots on the porch and some chairs that appear in good condition.

It’s always been one that I like looking at. It had its day in the sun I’m sure and it certainly stands with some authority. I sure would like to see it used as a lodge/bed & breakfast. Denison’s one of those kinds of towns—artsy, historic, rural.

If you have spent any time in the Traveler’s Hotel in Denison, tell me about it.

 

Dinosaur World, Glen Rose, Texas

You can’t miss it. In fact it reaches out and trips you as you turn right onto the road that takes you to Dinosaur Valley State Park. If you don’t go there first you will stop in on your way home. Dinosaur World!

I’ve only associated the town of Glen Rose with horse shows. North Texas Arabian Horse Club is having a show there second weekend this November. My friends invite me to Glen Rose for various horse shows. And when you drive along the road horses graze in fields on both sides.

The big attractions though are the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Dinosaur Valley State Park, and the Creation Evidence Museum. Dinosaur World at the entrance of Dinosaur Valley State Park was the exciting part of our family’s day especially for the Kid. We will be returning.

To see more of my photos from this date check this out!

 

Monday Monday

It seems that Monday is the most hated day of the week. There is even a song written on the subject by Boomtown Rats, “I Don’t Like Mondays”. Google “Why do we hate Mondays” and you’ll find a thousand or so discussions on the web on the subject.

There are two angles to approach this dreaded day. First, Monday is disliked simply because one slept in all weekend long and messed up their internal clock. You’ve rearranged for two days all your normal activities leaving your mind and body up for a real challenge Monday morning when the alarm screams.

Secondly, Monday is dreaded because for most of us we have to face all the complications of our jobs because two days passed with none of our attention paid to the many problems that developed. It doesn’t matter what field you are in. It’s all the same. We are dealing with humans. Nothing is new under the sun.

Tomorrow is Monday. I plan on it being a fabulous day. I guarantee it because God guarantees it. I’ll pray that His will be done and it should go much easier than it does when I decide Monday’s structure. Ya’ll have a good one now!

 

More Carter

It seems that almost all of Carter’s pictures I put here are of this same side with that same canter. It just works out like that. We get him running but he gets on his own pace. My camera has video so maybe next time I will shoot him running and post that here. The weather doesn’t help. The temperature needs to be cooler and this makes for a very energetic horse who loves to show off. For now, we are still in the 90′s.

I think I’m going to ride some next week.