Category Archives: Texas

Life Goes On…

Posted on 30 Oct 16 by rcmckee

If you look at the last post, I lost a good friend earlier this month. Well, I didn’t “lose” him exactly, we know exactly what happened… but talking with him is a little harder now, and I’m spending a fair … Continue reading →

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The 18th Century would like a word with you….

Posted on 05 Jul 16 by rcmckee

Between the heat and the neighbors starting the Holiday fireworks a couple of days early (and staying with them more or less continuously for 3 days…) I was pretty much unFourthed by the morning of the 3d. I decided that … Continue reading →

Posted in Houston, photos (mine), Texas | 2 Comments

What a weekend!

Posted on 08 Apr 16 by rcmckee

If you follow the media, or politics, or the Web, you may be forgiven for concluding that we Texans are a bunch of inbred pistol-packing sociopathic illiterates. I should like to point out that this is not altogether true. We … Continue reading →

Posted in San Antonio, Texas, Travel | 2 Comments

29.74609 N, 95.39412 W

Posted on 03 Mar 16 by rcmckee

Couple years ago, for reasons I don’t remember but that made sense then, I signed up for a Yelp! account. Last night I was skimming one of their “latest and greatest” email summaries when my writing partner sent me a … Continue reading →

Posted in Houston, photos (mine), Texas, Walkabout - GPS | 4 Comments

29.72202 N, 95.38975 W,

Posted on 28 Feb 16 by rcmckee

I’ve never been to Peru, but it’s only one line on the map away from Ecuador, where I may end up, so when the folks at the Houston Museum of Natural Science announced that Peru would be the focus of … Continue reading →

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31.92594N, 97.10344W

Posted on 19 Jan 16 by rcmckee

If you’ve spent much time in rural Texas, especially in the plains, you’ve seen these – the iconic old Aermotor windmill pump. They’re getting rarer now; fewer farms, fewer farmers and, one suspects, more electrical pumps. But they’ve been around, … Continue reading →

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“Somebody Ought to Shoot That…”

Posted on 18 Jan 16 by rcmckee

Had to run up to the old stomping grounds over the weekend to say Bon Voyage to a very old friend, and while I was there Mom pointed out that another friend had noticed the new plantings outside her apartment … Continue reading →

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Home Sweet Nylon Taffeta Home

Posted on 31 Dec 15 by rcmckee

Expecting (hoping) to spend more time on the road this year. Home is where you stash the bedroll. And the computers and the cameras… It’s sort of a monster, but it’s big enough to live and work in for a … Continue reading →

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You gotta be off to see the wizard….

Posted on 19 Dec 15 by rcmckee

On the way to Goliad as soon as I log off here, to see Los Pastorales – a reproduction of an old play/performance the monks at Mission Espiritu Santo and the other early Spanish Missions used to teach the Christmas … Continue reading →

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Cooling my heels… and other body parts, too….

Posted on 23 Feb 15 by rcmckee

Been camped in Mom’s back room for a few days doing the stuff you do when your elders get elderlier, and woke up this morning to find Fort Worth gone all winter wonderland and whatnot…. That’s not actually snow, it’s … Continue reading →

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