Critters Around East Texas

Afternoon drives around Livingston, Coldspring, and Shepherd, Texas offers the sights and sounds of critters too numerous to list.  Most of them are hiding in the forests, swamps, trees, and rivers.  Here are a few I've seen these past couple of days on and near my mother's farm near Shepherd.

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Small Details, Big Stories

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"Walk slowly along the sidewalks in the city. 

Small details tell big stories."

-Rick Burnett Baker

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Mid-April Spring Day, Letchworth State Park

Sunshine and "cool warmth" on this mid-April day.  Letchworth State Park, NY was calling out for me! Aside from a few ice falls on the sides of the canyon, scenes of winter have vanished.  Renewal has begun.

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Breaking Point

defy

nature's order is defiance.  due 

course vilifies and verifies as 

seasons spar.  random, on the 

surface, belies a narrative played

in timeless motion, a breaking point

replay making the past new again. 

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