This is  the line for a cattle sale in central Texas.It is hot, over 100 degrees.  Dry, one of the worse droughts on record.Ranchers are having to sell their cattle by the trailer full. There are usually only a few cattle trailers in line for the drop off at any given...

These sweet little flowers were on the sale table, one step away from being throw in the trash.I could not let that happen!  They were just a pretty as the "fresh that day"  $25.00 flowers.   Maybe the leaves were a little dry and the edges on a few petals were...

It is summer....in Texas It is going to be hot...REALLY hot..This is to be expected and is the norm. This year the weather is a little more challenging,  our rivers and grasslands are drying up..But there are many things that I love about summer..My friend's...

This "thing" (grasshopper...huge grasshopper) hopped a ride down my driveway and gave me the stinkeye the whole way! We have extreme drought and now very intimating grasshoppers.  I am in need of some chickens!(I did use my macro lens, so he isn't as big as he...

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.  Helen Keller. I usually don't post twice in one day,But I love this quote

It is still too hot to be outside, so I stayed in the studio and put together a few things.   I get carried away sometimes...Vintage silver spoon, pearls and brass bee necklaceold folding ruler, buttons and beads braceletold folding ruler, vintage clock faces and...