The first autographed copy of “Julia Florida” by Agustin Barrios Mangoré, Whitten Christmas Day 1938 in Costa Rica. Dedicated to Julia Rodriguez de Martinez:

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Words for the Weekend 🌿🥳🌿 #Springwatch #WritingCommunity Pick your winner. 😀 A B C D

The old farmily farm As I walk to auntie's house Along the woodshore Nothing but the suthering Of the breeze through the maples And the purdle of the unnamed brook That runs through my heart. -Paul Chaplo

Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River. My book "Amarillo Flights" has aerial photos of the site as it looks today. It was a perilous place dreaded by travelers and cattlemen. It was named for all the skulls and bones of the horses and cattle that were victims of its torrents.

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• John Clare •

Music for today: J.S. Bach on Baroque Organ! "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (Sleepers Awake, BWV 645); Rodney Gehrke, organ 4K HD Video youtube.com/watch?v=WvweJ1…

That year the old timer visited the ranch. He felt the dirt and grass, then said "its a good for a burn." With a brushfire truck waiting, they lit our two coastal hayfields on fire. The next year we had over three-hundred round bales that tested for 10% protein and an extra cut.

Terlingua Texas an hour ago, currently 109° in the shade on my east facing porch. If you are coming this way, please be prepared, and always carry more water than you could ever imagine needing.

Some sad news today. Oscar-nominated actor and Texan Frederic Forrest has passed away at the age of 86. Frederic was born in Waxahachie and is probably best known to Texans for playing the role of Blue Duck in Lonesome Dove. Forrest first came to public attention for his

"Sudden and magnificent, the Sun's broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them; and the first rays, shooting across the level water-meadows, took the animals full in the eyes and dazzled them. When they were able to look once more, the Vision had vanished, and

"If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out for you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find." ~ Franz Kafka 🎨 Stanislav Zhukovsky (1936)

"Let us take flight with the passion of our emotions and follow the graceful swirl of the swallows dancing high in the sky." ~ Erik Pevernagie 'Swallows' 🎨 James Lynch

Traces of Texas reader Rebecca Schneider was going through her grandmother's things when she found this dazzling photo of Fair Park in Dallas during the Centennial celebration back in 1936. Rebecca's grandmother worked for a construction company that helped build all of this.

Battling severe allergies from the manure #tornado southeast of Kimball, NE. Cannot open left eye

I am heading to SC to spend the weekend and Independence Day with Gizmo, but keeping an eye on next week’s potent pattern for the central High Plains severe weather. Looks like we haven’t seen anything yet! #HighPlainsInsanity

"Friend, this surely is enough. And should you want to read more, then go and become yourself the words, and yourself the Being." ~ Angelus Silesius Birch Grove • Evening (1869) 🎨 Fyodor Vasilyev

Wendell Berry 🖎

Wishing you a Happy Independence Day!