It never stopped raining that summer ... well maybe by August it let up ... but it was a record breaking summer for rain none the less.

The sun was just beginning to tilt off to the west, over a little bay at lake Tawakoni, and this was my eastern view. This is MY Texas!

This image is up on my web site ... I pulled a copy of it so that i'd have an image (i'm not on my own pc) and a way to give ya'll an update.

My hp945 camera is, as many of you warned me ... a piece of junk (think ... play nice, watch your language, this is a high-class sandbox and you enjoy it ... repeat after me ... play nice, watch your language) mmm ok check my blog for a less nice version ;)

the HP945 is back and it is in better shape ... but i'm still pushing CompUSA because I want images from it that are as good as this one. (all the other images in my gallery are from my hp945 ... after correcting manipulations)

This image has no correcting, is cropped, and is reduced in quality to allow for speedier downloads because my personal web site is more of a very personal blog that I usually don't share with just anybody and everybody ... and most of the bodies I share it with are still on dial-up!!! boggles my brain but I try to be nice to them, too, by usually putting up images that are less than 50k ... this one's pushing it ... it's 81k or so.

There's a ton of stuff going on ... i'm having internet connection issues at the cafe ... when I get to be there ... and until mmm sunday evening I will be out at emory storage ... dieing in the 100+ heat! ... if you're in the area stop by and say hi. if you're not in the area, you'll know you aren't because you won't know where the heck i'm talking about ;)

anyway ... comment away ... any way you want.

have fun,
pam #292477

But the thing that's making it more difficult every day for people to understand the N. Texas Prairie is the constant building.

One time I took a couple in the back way to the Dallas area. They had driven across country from Florida, through East Texas ... still ... they were astonished when we exited the highway, twisted, turned, and wa-la ... there we were overlooking gentle rolling hills. It's one of the very last undeveloped areas on the east side of the metroplex.

This is the reason I feel so smoothered here. Man has done all that's possible to obliterate the natural beauty. Oh, and they're also trying to do everything possible to eliminate the ability to comprehend the texture of hills in town.

Not far from where Sarah lives there's a Starbucks that is on the top of a hill. Perhaps tomorrow I will remember to go try for a picture. From the Starbucks you can see the texture of the hills and downtown. But now they are going to put up a bank building and block that view ... just a stupid one story building that's not even needed ... there's pleanty of space all in the shopping center but no they have to stick a little grungy bank building there to block the view. Yeah and to face the street ... even the people in the bank won't see the view ... oh well except possibly they will let the pres have a view out the side of the building ... but from there ... lower on the perch ... the pres's view would be of a lovely gas station.

Anyway out where Sam lives there is still some undeveloped areas too that have that Prairie feel ... The N. Texas and even the Oklahoma Prairie is very unique ... just when you think it's flat ... it's not and in the spring the wild flowers are beautiful ...

But the Texas Prairie gets hot and it will dry up and look like a hay stack ... oh which is what it is LOL ... this year it is very dry and there's lots of concern about grass fires.

I tried to get an interesting shot at Sam's that captures the feel of the prairie in the summer but the sick camera rather made them icky. Perhaps I will revisit them and see if I can work some sort of leveling magic on them. First though I will post the original of this one.

I am looking forward to being up there for an all new reason ... I simply want this move to be over and done.

ok well enough ranting and raving about Prairies and buildings ...

have fun
me #1717442