This is Texas

email | 4-9-02 | unknown

[luckystarmom]

I like that one. Got good news yesterday. My nephew just got accepted to A&M. He's another one in a long line of Aggies from my family.

[oyez]

Hey, a Ford F-150 is no different the a 30-06, other than the risk of hitting an oak tree with 2 tons of vehicle

. I don't work for the Chamber of Commerce and I don't consider LBJ someone to build ledends. What he did for Houston was no more than what Trent Lot did for Pascagoula, Civil Rights was already a done deal by congress and Johnson took this country off to a war that he was not willing to win. All those other legends you spoke of aren't responsible for the deaths and injuries of thousands. Your right, Larger than Life.

[Mini-14]

Texas is the nicest people you'll ever meet. Anywhere. Not to mention, the prettiest girls.

Right on!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Re your picture of Crawford .....is that water in that picture? I lived in West Texas and we didn't see that stuff much.........

[humblegunner]

Looks done to me.

[SamAdams76]

I'm from Boston. You mean there's a world outside I-495?

[basil]

Seventh generation Texan ping!

Reading this thread has been a lot of fun, especially since I have spent almost all of the last 2 weeks driving across the western USA from the heart of Texas to far northwestern CA.

Hope to cross that boundary back into the Lone Star State on Friday, and it will be SO -O-O good to be back home!

[serinde]

"Texan by birth, Aggie by the grace of God"

Gig 'em!!

[COB1]

Doggone it, Val!
You're making ME homesick and I'm IN Texas!!

[TxBec]

Thank you for posting those! I can see this one and now I can see the other one too. They are beautiful..

[TxBec]

WyBec..naw..CaBec...nope.. FlBec... uh-uh.. okay. None sound as good as TxBec :)

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

AHHHHH but do you have cows that give strawberry milk ?

[ValerieUSA]

Yep, there's water in the Texas pictures now. Ask Tony Blair if he noticed it is dry here. *LOL*
Hog Creek over the road

[antivenom]

Been there!

I have traveled around the world and when a foreigner asks me where I am from, my reply is always, TEXAS! Others in the group say the USA, and the foreigners always gravitate to the Texans and they have hundreds of questions. BTW, when I was in Indonesia last year, they were still watching re-runs of DALLAS! We were in a little cafe, where the girls were huddled around a little portable b&w tv, aluminum foil on the antennas watching DALLAS!

[TEXICAN II]

A location which deserves to be acknowledged ( unfortunately it is long gone ) is in downtown Round Rock, behind the last bank Sam Bass robbed. It was a small frame building, covered with corrugated sheet metal, only external sign was ( I think ) "Tavern", perhaps with the Tejano owner's name. My father-in-law took me in there once ( approx 1972-73, about 1-2 years after his daughter & I were married ) for a quick beer-but really more for the only funny thing I ever saw him do, for my benefit. My very Texan, Germanic father-in-law ( Ray Lee Whisenant ) was devoid of humor, a graduate of Patton's Third Army Air Corps, looked like John Wayne ( really a bit more attractive & threatening ) & looked, to me, to be approx 8 feet tall & 4 feet wide. He smiled though, when I spotted the notice on the wall-"NO WOMEN"!!!! The tavern owner had long ago discovered the secret to a peaceful bar was simple & painless. I would pay cash money for a photo of the sign.

[ValerieUSA]

*LOL* It would have negated the effectiveness of the sign if had taken a picture of it. I think you'll have to ask the men if they've seen it.
You were very brave to marry that man's daughter. Or in love.

[Steve0113]

My dream is to get back to the beautiful beaches in Sanibel, Florida

My wife and I went there on our honeymoon last year. It is, without exception, the most beautiful place I've ever been -- a tropical paradise.

[ValerieUSA]

Bosque River by Valley Mills

[JavaTheHutt]

OK Valerie, I can't stand it anymore. Your pictures are making me so homesick. I have steel guitar twangs and the voice of Hank Williams running through my head "I'm so lonesome, I could cry."

I already packed a bag. Heading back home to Texas for the weekend. I need to see some bluebonnets, a long horn steer, and an armadillo or two if I can.

[uglybiker]

Here's a shot from one of my friends from The Lone Star State.

Only in Texas...