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Back in my youth I discovered  The Mother Earth News. It was probably sometime around 1971 that I first came across the magazine. I am sure I first found it at the old Space City News in downtown Houston where I spent a lot of time each weekend wandering the aisles checking out [...]

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The drive home yesterday was blustery but dry with lots of high clouds and rain showers off in the distance. Hurricane Dolly’s approach to the Texas coast was being felt first far north of the expected landfall. The first bands of showers croosed Galveston Island early yesterday morning.
The drive in this morning was wetter…A slow [...]

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A shot from last year’s trail ride by my office on the southern edge of Houston.
On the trail ride, cowpokes draw a crowd | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
On Tuesday, Davis and about 200 other cowpokes from the Southwest Trailriders Association ambled along highways to join 12 other groups at Memorial Park today to help [...]

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As a youngster growing up on the Gulf coast I naturally became a bit of a rockhound. Makes sense doesn’t it? What with no natural rock formations being available within a hundred miles of where I lived.
I think the rocks that first caught my eye, and are still my favorite, were the granite blocks hauled [...]

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