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Shelley’s Blog
27 Aug El Llano Estacado: The Vast, Staked, Palisaded Plain
Listen to a podcast by W.F. Strong from the Texas Standard broadcast news organization that discusses and references my book "Walking the Llano". Click "Read More" to listen to the full podcast. ...
11 Oct Return(ing) to Landscape
Sometimes I feel the old house calling to me through its almost 100 years of existence. Through its builder, Jess Giles, its subsequent owners, my great Aunt Alice and Uncle Vern. Through the no doubt mice ridden electrical system and sputtering toilet, the kitchen's hot water barely warming the dinner dishes as it makes its way from the basement water heater upstairs. Nighttimes there I can sometimes hear something in the old chimney (the red foxes occasionally spotted? a squirrel? what?), a comfort rather than a scare. This past...