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Jumbotron videographer in Texas.
Jumbotron videographer at a playoff game in Texas. It was a cold night!
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“meet-cute”
Hollywood has a word for it- it’s called ‘meet-cute.’ If you’ve seen any movies at all, the scene is repeated time after time. It’s when the heroine comes into the film and the hero is smitten. He’s never the same; he’s enchanted; he has to have her. He has ‘met the cute.’ This is how…
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“Oh, for showers we plead”
Mercy-drops… Do you realize that last month, in less than a week, we got two inches of rain? And the weather cooled, as well. Wasn’t it delightful? The animal world, the plant world and humankind here in Nacogdoches all breathed a sigh of relief. We’ve been having terrible weather of late. Last year we got…
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The Last Fig Leaf
The last fig leaf fell from my fig bush this past week, a sure sign that winter and a weather change is upon us. It’s as if the plant world is undressing to clothe itself in the gray nightclothes of winter. With the recent cool, wet weather, I think we can safely say summer is…
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Hope – Despair not!
Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary of 1747 defines hope as “the expectation of some good; an expectation indulged with pleasure…hope is that pleasure in the mind which everyone finds in himself upon the thought of a profitable future enjoyment of a thing which is apt to delight in.” Gardeners do all they do (and I stress…
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Heat and Passion
I’ve been watching passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) blooming over on Logansport Street in the worst heat of our summer. It has repeatedly caught my eye with its vivid cool blue bloom as it trails across a wrought iron fence. Having bid adieu to one of the hottest and driest Augusts East Texans have experienced in a…
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Victorian Era Tropical Plants
Earlier this summer my wife and took a long drive to the East Coast to visit with family on Saint Simon Island off the coast of Georgia.
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My husband is a ‘putter-er’
Jeff is on vacation, so today’s gardening column has been submitted by his wife who he coerces into filling in for him periodically. By Leabeth Abt My husband is a ‘putter-er’. Now, lest you double check the section of the newspaper you are on (thinking you’ve somehow wandered to the sports page), let me…
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The Best Camera …
There is a truism among photographers, “The best camera is the one you have with you.” When this picture was taken, the best camera in the world was the one in my iphone, and it allowed me to capture my sons-in-law playing foosball during our recent family vacation. (Thank’s to www.brenthale.com for the Art Design…