777 Blanton Hill Road

Photo album is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/40264973@N04/

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." - Galileo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40264973@N04/

Old album is at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tami_sutcliffe_portfolio/

and goes through July 4 2009

Grayson County had 75,000 head of beef cattle in January 2009.

Six of them were under our oak tree.

"In branding terminology, a leaning letter or character is "tumbling." In the horizontal position it is "lazy." Short curved strokes or wings added at the top make a "Flying T." The addition of short bars at the bottom of a symbol makes it "walking." Changing angular lines into curves makes a brand "running." Half-circles, quarter-circles, and triangles were frequently used in late-nineteenth-century brands. An open triangle was a "rafter." If a letter rested in a quarter-circle it was "rocking." There were "bars," "stripes," "rails," and "slashes" that differed only in length and angle. When a straight line connected characters, a "chain" was made."
from Handbook of Texas Online

2008-12-29 04:58:00 Flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tami_sutcliffe_portfolio/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tami_sutcliffe_portfolio/

Mary Jordan created this landscape for us:

The plans for the steel building are finally underway. Lots to do and thnk about, but what a pleasure when everything will finally be in place!

"The stars at night/Are big and bright/Deep in the heart of Texas."

Texas Pepper Vine


New wooden gate

The sunflower is one of only four major crops of global importance native to the United States (blueberry, cranberry, and pecan are the other three). Leaving the stubble and residues of harvested sunflowers on the surface in the late fall and over the winter allow ample time for birds to find the field and clean up a much of the seed.



The Eastern pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis), also known as the Common pondhawk, is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to the eastern two-thirds of the United States. The species is distinguished in that the female is bright green and the adult male is nearly entirely blue.

The Ranch