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Post by cookie3rocks on Nov 18, 2004 19:16:06 GMT -5
Actually, its more like my neighbors, they have a better view. It took a while but the oaks have finally turned and its awsome to see. Unfortunatly, alot of the contrasting leaves have fallen off at this point, but it's still pretty. Enjoy!   cookie |
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 18, 2004 19:52:37 GMT -5
those are great shots, cookie......thanks!
KD
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Post by docone31 on Nov 18, 2004 20:37:20 GMT -5
Wow!
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Post by Cher on Nov 18, 2004 21:17:32 GMT -5
Isn't that gorgeous!! All of our pretty leaves are on the ground ... swept away with the wind and rain.  Thanks for a pleasant reminder of days gone by. Cher |
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Post by llanago on Nov 18, 2004 21:32:45 GMT -5
I do love Georgia, N. Carolina, Tennessee in the fall. The sugar maples are breathtaking. Much more color than we have here, but we have our own kind of beauty. This is not my backyard, but pics taken today at the ranch I work at - the one that has the cool rocks. How 'bout touch of spring in the middle of November?  Want to explore a cave? Problem is, how do ya' get there.? Probably 50' straight down from the top and 100' feet straight up from the bottom.  Moon arising  Clear blue sky, one fluffy cloud  To heck with Montana, this is the big sky!  Here comes the river. Had to leave work early Tuesday because this is a low water crossing where normally you have to drive thru about 6" of water. Lots of rain Tuesday at the head of the river, I left before the river came up, and a good thing I did, because shortly after I left, it came roaring down, and I wouldn't have been able to get home.  And rollin' along downstream  This is what it looks like all around where BE and I live. llana |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Nov 18, 2004 21:48:50 GMT -5
what great pics cookie and llana.
would like somebody to go in that cave and tell me what they see - but not me!
kim
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Post by cookie3rocks on Nov 18, 2004 22:03:52 GMT -5
If someone showed me how, I'd repel down that cave in a heartbeat! As Nike sez:
No Fear!
As southeners say
"Ain't Skeert!"
;D
Awesome pics Llana. Do you live in the hill country? That's where my father has requested his ashes be scattered when he passes.
cookie
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Post by llanago on Nov 18, 2004 22:08:52 GMT -5
Probably rattlesnakes! I would love to rapel down that cliff. Have only done it once, but man was it fun. That iris in full bloom is what blew me away. They often bloom in the fall and have even seen some blooming in January. We have such mild weather sometimes, I guess they get confused! And I forgot to post this one. It's a Lost Maple framed by two big cedar trees. Not like the maples in Cookie's area or the NE, but close.  |
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Post by bwalters on Nov 18, 2004 23:25:22 GMT -5
Great pics, Llana! Looks just like home! Oh yeah, it IS home to us, isn't it!?!
There's another cave very near where Llana took the pic. Local legend has it that the previous owner wanted to be buried in the cave with all of his money and possessions. The legend also says that his family opposed that idea so that it didn't happen. However, the entrance to that cave, which is also located in an almost inaccessible location, has been sealed with cement If the guy isn't entombed there, why would the cave entrance be sealed? I've seen the sealed entrance, so I know that part is true! It's very close to where Llana was working today and is in an absolutely beautiful but very rough part of our area.
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Post by llanago on Nov 18, 2004 23:57:08 GMT -5
BE, I hadn't ever heard that! Interesting. Going to have to ask Byron about it and see if he will take me to see it someday. He did say that one of these days he would give me the grand tour of the ranch way off the main road. Of course, I rarely see him. When I called him Tuesday night to tell him I would be back today to finish up, he thought I was still at the ranch unable to get home.
He got trapped way out close to Camp Wood and couldn't get home until about 8 or so. George had to stay the night at The Orchard House and Joyce had to stay overnight at Sandy and Louis'. I sure am glad I left when I did. George said he should have left when I called him and he told me to leave. He told me today that if it rains hard to get outta there and not to come back even if the sun is shining - like Tuesday. The sun was shining when I hit 2107 and I almost turned around and went back out.
George said don't EVER do that! Once you're out, stay out! At least til it stops raining and the river is not on the rise or has already crested out there!
If I would have gotten trapped out there, I don't think I would have been able to resist the temptation to fill one of those bathtubs with hot water and soak until I was wrinkled as a prune. I haven't had a bath in over a year!
Love my showers, but sometimes a bath would be SOOOO NICE!
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 19, 2004 1:15:18 GMT -5
Wow! For somebody living in the 'burbs, those shots are amazing. I'd love to visit and sometimes I think I'd love to live there, until reason prevails again. There is something about having choices of multiple supermarkets and malls and entertainment and everything else that is just too hard to give up, no matter how attractive the country is. Having a house in Montana or Wyoming or wherever is a fantasy that gets discussed periodically in glowing terms, but inevitably it crashes and burns in the realities.
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Post by deepsouth on Nov 19, 2004 3:12:38 GMT -5
Thank you Cookie and Llana for those wonderful fotos . It is great to see some one elses backyard too even if it is the neighbours or bosses haha.
How big is that ranch you work on ? and is it a cattle ranch?
Thanks again
Jack
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Post by llanago on Nov 19, 2004 7:51:31 GMT -5
There is something about having choices of multiple supermarkets and malls and entertainment and everything else that is just too hard to give up, no matter how attractive the country is. And I am exactly the opposite. There is nothing about the city that attacts me. Too much traffic, noise, people, litter, ucky smells, etc. I can't imagine driving and seeing nothing but other cars, stop lights, and buildings. Give me the peace, quiet and wide open spaces of the country. I'd rather live in one of those caves than in the city.  With the exception of hardware stores and the rock shop, I hate shopping! Would be nice to have a decent grocery store close by; Would even be nicer if I didn't have to grocery shop at all! Jack, the ranch is 15,000 acres. They do have cattle and pear, peach and pecan orchards. But mostly it is a hunting and "get away from the city" ranch for the family and their guests. llana
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Post by aquababie19 on Nov 19, 2004 11:07:50 GMT -5
beautiful pics. i would have to drive to the country to show yall some nice pics. i live i nthe city, but we do have a nice size backyard. maybe i will share |
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 19, 2004 14:50:02 GMT -5
Don't ya just LOVE Texas! great photos, llana, brilliant!
i made the drive from San Antonio to Del Rio and back once, and took a ride to the Pecos River (Judge Bean country) and was totally amazed at the country side, the sagebrush and cactus....i'd love to see more of Texas someday.
i guess we have the best of both worlds here, we're out in the country, no immediate neighbors, but within 20 minutes drive to decent grocery stores, hardware and clothing shops. no rock shops unfortunately.....
thanks for the photos!
KD
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Post by llanago on Nov 19, 2004 16:21:06 GMT -5
Cookie, yes we are in the Hill Country. About 50 or so miles from San Antonio, so the city isn't that far away. Bring yourself on over here and we'll find somebody to take us repelling. Got lots of that kind of cliffs around here with our names on them! KD, I have lived all over the place and always liked where I was - except Okla. City (big, flat and UGLY), but the Hill Country of Texas has always been home. If you went from SA to Del Rio, you weren't too far from us. You ought to see the sage and cactus in bloom! When spring comes I'll get out the camera. The desert area between Del Rio and the Big Bend area in the spring when the cactus is in bloom is incredibly beautiful. It's 26 miles round trip to the closet grocery store and it really can't be called decent! Got a hardware store here in town; a bigger one across the street from the grocery store. But the really decent grocery store and really good hardware stores - Lowes and HomeDepot - are about 50 miles round trip. There is also a bead shop there. The rock shop is about 50 miles round trip from here - in a different direction. So, we, too, have the best of both worlds - unless you drive a gas guzzling Ford 250 V-10, like me. I want to go to the bead shop tomorrow, but might end up talking myself out of it because it will take over a 1/4 of tank of gas to get there and back! llana |
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Post by cookie3rocks on Nov 19, 2004 19:13:30 GMT -5
As much as I love it here, as beautiful as it is, every once in a while my husband and I need a city fix in Atlanta. Jazz club, fine dinning, martini bar, a walk through artistic, earthy "little five points", just to feel a little culture again. Then back to nature! Walmart is a 80 mile round trip in any direction. 90 mins round trip to Home Depot and any decent mall. Do have a nice grocery store 8 miles away.
I yhink the hill country is by far and away the most beautiful part of Texas, as vast a state as it is.
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 20, 2004 1:22:37 GMT -5
Llana, the funny thing is I hate shopping too, I dread the malls and make end runs at the major sales and get out. Good grocery stores are important, though. Good grocery stores on the way home from work are important. The food store thing is one of those that make the lifestyle completely different -- if you've gotta drive all that way to the store, you sure can't get by with plan-as-you-go dinners and deciding what to have while driving up the highway at 5PM. I'm probably in and out of a grocery store daily on average. You've got me curious, I'm going to keep track.
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Post by llanago on Nov 20, 2004 1:59:03 GMT -5
puppies, when you live out in the country and have a gas guzzler, ya' plan all your trips to town. I go to the Bandera once a week for work and while I am there I do everything I need to do - bank, grocery store, water, gas, etc. A tank of gas will usually last me two weeks unless I have to go to Kerrville and really make the rounds! When I go there, I sit down and make a list to exactly where I want to go, then plan to do the big circle. Go up the highway to Lowes, get on the interstate and skip over to WalMart on the other side of town, across the street to the craft store, go thru town to hit the RV store, grocery store, bead shop, second hand shop (I do love to shop there!), on to Gibsons if I am looking for something and can't find it anywhere else. Then across the bridge and headin' for home. And, ya' gotta always remember to take the ice chest for the cold stuff ya' get at the grocery store. Yep, ya' gotta plan the trips to town! Every once and a while I willl go over there just for one particular thing - esp. if it's something I need to fix the RV. |
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Post by bwalters on Nov 20, 2004 18:43:58 GMT -5
Puppie,
I live 4 miles closer to Bandera than Llana does, but I also plan a trip there for grocery shopping only once a week. I have 2 refrigerators and keep both freezers full, so our decisions for supper are made according to what is on hand. We have a quick stop store just 3 doors down from me so if we run out of something in between trips to town, we can get it there. But we don't do that often cuz they're expensive and have a very limited inventory.
I moved here 21 years ago (from the Dallas area). Not having a 24 hour grocery store nearby was one of the hardest things for me to get used to. But now that I'm so used to it, it's kind of a non-issue. It's just how we do it here. Small price to pay for living in the midst of such year round beauty with deer in the backyard and no signal lights in town!
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Thanks for a pleasant reminder of days gone by.
