Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Stopping Assumptions

When thinking of Texas many people automatically think of this:


This misconception became evident when Mark and I attended Bible College in the midwest, especially when we got to know Mark, a friend from Great Britain, whose dream of traveling to Texas was to go to El Paso. But there is so much more to Texas. Texas is BIG! :) Many regions have their own geographical identity.

THIS is East Texas!


Ok, so it looks a little like desert in front, but that's a work in progress... keep reading! :)

I know many of you have probably been to Texas, or heard me talk of it. Allow me to state once agian - it is beautiful here! :) I'm just a little proud. Anyway, the pictures are of a piece of property that my parents own way out in the boonies of East Texas. (Seriously!) It is absolutely beautiful up there. We were out on Monday, Dad had a road built and an area leveled out. Hopefully there will be a cabin up there someday. For now, maybe just a picnic or so. The view is outstanding!


...and so was the climb!

boy, that's a jungle on either side!


Black-Eyed Susans along the road.

The puppies evidently thought they might be good to eat. :)

These little guys were so cute - and friendly! They enjoyed visiting with us.

Well, I hope you enjoyed the little East Texas tour! I enjoyed being out there with the rest of my family (Mark had to work.) It was a wonderful day. We had some rain and it wasn't hot while we were there. Good thing too... that hill is steep!

Til later!

4 comments:

  1. It's beautiful! Thanks for the tour.

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  2. Thanks for taking the tour! :)

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  3. *SIGH* Thanks for the walk down memory lane. I grew up in West Texas, where it does look a lot like that first pic, LOL! I love it!

    BTW, you are tagged for a meme! See my blog for details...

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  4. My husband had to go to TX fairly often for training at his old job. The kids and I tagged along on several of the trips.

    At a rest stop somewhere, we saw a sign that said "the sun has ris, the sun has set, we're still in TX yet?" Or something like that...

    Anyway, we had just been discussing what a HUGE state TX is. There's nothing like actually seeing geography to understand it.

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