'O TO BE IN TEXAS...NOW THAT SPRING IS HERE..."

 

A PEACH TREE...AT "WILD PEACH"

              

The very essence of this Place

    deep in the heart of Texas

fairly cries out

"O to be in Texas...

      now that Spring is here!"

The trees have leafed...

     The grass is greening...

The sky is the bluest

      with its wispy clouds...

The birds (I'm sure)  are

      warbling their tunes...

....and the little peach-tree

      "shoot" of two years ago

is becoming a real tree

      "in its own right" and

will produce fruit for peach 

      ice cream by hot July

The brand new pink blossoms

     suggest beauty---as the

picture-taker with skill has

      framed them against

the reddish/pink barn

We can imagine--on this

      idyllic bucolic Place---

cows and calves grazing...

      chickens roaming

free and "puck-pucking.."

      Ancient oak trees of 

history adding another age 

      ring, and

Maybe there is a little lake

      somewhere around there,

edged by cattails, and with 

      jumping bass...

O yes! To be at that beautiful 

     peaceful scene on this day 

in spring...

     breathing the clear free air,

of  Freedom

     absorbing the beauty

and somehow sensing the 

     patriotism of American Texans...

is almost overwhelming.

HAPPY TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY

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TEXAS---MY NATIVE STATE,

Dawson County, Lamesa, Texas

BY MIL

3 March 2017

Photo by W.L.M.