Lone Star Back Roads

This was our second time attending the Winchester Area Volunteer Fire Department’s Annual Fish Fry & Auction. The proceeds of this event are used to purchase equipment. The fish is just fantastic… I…

Jackrabbits win!

Yesterday we went to the Serbin Picnic. Half of it, anyway. At 2pm, we packed up and headed southeast to East Bernard. I’ll write about that later. I’ll mostly let these photos speak…

Here are some semi-random photos from the last week or so. There’s not much of a theme here except maybe “end of the school year.”

What a difference a day can make… Yesterday when Margie got home, she remembered we needed milk. At about 7:30, we decided to turn the errand into a bit of a drive. Today…

Our home church has, for every year of its existence, held a service on Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord (aka Ascension Day). Up until this year, that is. Okay, I know…

That’s not a really creative title, sorry. I’m not feeling super creative at the moment. Why’d I choose it? Well, because I noticed that both sides of the reconstructed bell tower had louvers…

“You can’t stop what’s coming. It ain’t all waitin’ on you. That’s vanity.” Those words come from one my favorite movie scenes, at the end of No Country for Old Men. Sheriff Bell’s…

I’m not posting these on Facebook or Instagram… though I may post them on some of the other social media channels I’m on (Vero or Plates probably, but maybe even Flickr or 500px,…

This afternoon, I arrived at the St. Paul Lutheran School’s Annual Chili Supper, Auction, and Cook-Off early… my intention was to take some photos, process them, and get them uploaded before they started…

I sometimes tell folks that I’m only half from the country. I grew up five miles from the nearest town (and it only had one stoplight), and there was a tobacco field behind…

As promised… here are some photos of the rededication and blessing of the 1901 Immanuel Lutheran Giddings bell. It sure looks nice! After the end of the service, folks got to write verses…

The folks at Christ Lutheran Church in Loebau were selling BBQ chicken plates today. Naturally, we wanted to pick some up, so we headed in that direction a little before 5pm. There were…

These are not the first photos of City Meat Market in Giddings that I’ve shared, nor will they be the last, unless I get hit by the proverbial bus or something else happens…