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April 5, 2013 You've heard of Urban Cowboys........yes? Well, meet Urban Longhorns. This shot is another from the Lgood archives and is of the cattle drive of Texas Longhorns down the street of the famous Fort Worth Stockyards area. The cattle are driven by cowboys twice a day and are so much fun to see. From the Fortworth.com website: The Texas Longhorn and the American cowboy are two of the most enduring symbols of the Old West. They're a big reason why Fort Worth earned the nickname "Cowtown." And they formed the core of the great cattle drives of the late nineteenth century. Now, the romance and mystique of cowboys and cattle drives returns to Fort Worth with The Herd - Texas Longhorns driven by genuine Texas cowhands - offering an unforgettable glimpse into the past. You'll hear the jingle of spurs, the cattle bawling, and the rhythm of the hoofbeats. As The Herd passes, a bygone era comes to life before your eyes. "We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - George S. Patton Sorry I've been so missing from comments this week. I promise to try to catch up today & over the weekend before I get to leave again for another business trip on Monday 4/8. Have some wild-west sort of fun today my friends. Linda
March 25, 2013 Earlier this year we had some friends of ours come to visit for the weekend. We took them to the Ellis County museum for a visit. As we were admiring all the history, we came upon this painted wall. It was designed to highlight some of the businesses in the county that were popular in from the 1920s to the 1950s. Bill was delighted to see that one of the signs highlighted his grandmother's shop: Bessie's Beauty shop. If you enlarge the photo, you can see Bessie's sign in the first row of square shaped signs, third from the left. The boxes on the table at the bottom of this shot are cotton samples that define the difference in cotton grades. Have you ever heard the term "fair to middling" ? Well, that comes from the early cotton farming days. According to Wiki Answers: Its a term that comes from grades of cotton. Middling is the best grade. So if you asked someone HOWS YOUR DAY? They would often reply OH, BOUT FAIR TO MIDDLIN"' It means average or better. Under the old method of grading cotton, which was phased out in the 1970's, 80's, and 90's, cotton was given a name grade according to its quality. Each bale of cotton was sampled, and the samples (about 5" wide by 15" long by 3" thick) were graded by trained cotton classers. Those samples ranged (listed from best to worst) from fine to good to fair to middling to ordinary, with intermediate classes later added. So a "fair to middlin'" grade was okay but not particularly good. It was probably acceptable, but not what was truly desired. Those terms still exist in use in the cotton trade, although computer grading of samples and numerical grades have largely displaced them. Ellis County Texas (I live in it's county seat Waxahachie) was widely known in the early to mid 20th century as a center for cotton production. Many acres of cotton are still grown here today. I hope you a a better than "Fair to Middling" day today my friends, Linda
January 23, 2013 Quintessential Texas - longhorns and bluebonnets, taken last Spring. Have a wonderful day. I'm headed to Reno, Nevado to spend the week with Bill at the Safari Club International show. It will be fun but lots of hours on your feet. Hopefully I'll get time to take some photos. Best, Linda
January 2, 2013 See today's daily for more information on this old building, which is the original home of the Nocona Boot factory in Nocona, Texas. http://lgood.smugmug.com/Other/Daily-Photos/12484643_NvHx9n#!i=2299528299&k=d5SSCgP
January 2, 2013 Thanks for all of your comments on the Grandson's at Grandpa's work bench photo yesterday, and all the New Year's greetings and wishes. You guys rock. While I was off I was going back through some photos from 2012 and doing some processing on them. I ran across this one, and thought you all might enjoy the SC version of this old building. The photo was taken on a dark, cloudy and wet day, so there wasn't much color in the original photo. Here's the original : http://lgood.smugmug.com/Architecture/Buildings/7752393_7Pg76q#!i=2299547814&k=LxTV3C4 As you can see the brick is a lovely yellow/golden color. I'm not sure when this building was built, but I can recall in the late 1950s and all through the 1960s and 1970s when I was a young girl living just across the Red River in Oklahoma from Nocona, this was a source of employement for lots and lots of southern Oklahoma and Northern Texas families. We grew up thinking Nocona boots were just a local thing, and I was surprised when I went to college and later traveled all over the country to learn that Nocona boots were very well known and a respected brand name. Miss Enid Justin founded the Nocona Boot Company in 1925 to carry on her father's legacy H.J. "Joe" Justin's boot making enterprise that he started in 1906. After Daddy Joe died in 1918, the other family members wanted to move the Justin Boot company to Fort Worth, and by 1925 they did. However, Miss Enid Justin felt that it was her father's legacy that a boot company run by a family member should remain in Nocona, thus she founded this company and built her business there. In 1981, the Nocona Boot Company merged with Justin Industries, parent company of the Justin Boot Company, bringing the bootmaking histories of this one family's two separate companies full circle. "I love to wear boots - and shoes, I don't like at all." ~ Reba McEntire Have a great day! Linda
You might ask why I have this shot of an old telephone pole in my Trains Gallery..........simple, it was adjacent to the lovely old Railroad Depot in Melrose, Texas. The depot is the building that you can see here, it was lovely, made of stucco, a red tile roof and it's wood framed windows were painted a happy tourquiose blue.
Entering Earth.............Texas, that is.
2011 - Wind power in West Texas! Notice the big beautiful sky on this hot summer day.
A Happy Dolphin At Sea World, San Antonio, TX
April 5, 2013

You've heard of Urban Cowboys........yes? Well, meet Urban Longhorns.

This shot is another from the Lgood archives and is of the cattle drive of Texas Longhorns down the street of the famous Fort Worth Stockyards area. The cattle are driven by cowboys twice a day and are so much fun to see.

From the Fortworth.com website: The Texas Longhorn and the American cowboy are two of the most enduring symbols of the Old West. They're a big reason why Fort Worth earned the nickname "Cowtown." And they formed the core of the great cattle drives of the late nineteenth century. Now, the romance and mystique of cowboys and cattle drives returns to Fort Worth with The Herd - Texas Longhorns driven by genuine Texas cowhands - offering an unforgettable glimpse into the past. You'll hear the jingle of spurs, the cattle bawling, and the rhythm of the hoofbeats. As The Herd passes, a bygone era comes to life before your eyes.

"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - George S. Patton

Sorry I've been so missing from comments this week. I promise to try to catch up today & over the weekend before I get to leave again for another business trip on Monday 4/8.

Have some wild-west sort of fun today my friends.

Linda
April 5, 2013 You've heard of Urban Cowboys........yes? Well, meet Urban Longhorns. This shot is another from the Lgood archives and is of the cattle drive of Texas Longhorns down the street of the famous Fort Worth Stockyards area. The cattle are driven by cowboys twice a day and are so much fun to see. From the Fortworth.com website: The Texas Longhorn and the American cowboy are two of the most enduring symbols of the Old West. They're a big reason why Fort Worth earned the nickname "Cowtown." And they formed the core of the great cattle drives of the late nineteenth century. Now, the romance and mystique of cowboys and cattle drives returns to Fort Worth with The Herd - Texas Longhorns driven by genuine Texas cowhands - offering an unforgettable glimpse into the past. You'll hear the jingle of spurs, the cattle bawling, and the rhythm of the hoofbeats. As The Herd passes, a bygone era comes to life before your eyes. "We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - George S. Patton Sorry I've been so missing from comments this week. I promise to try to catch up today & over the weekend before I get to leave again for another business trip on Monday 4/8. Have some wild-west sort of fun today my friends. Linda
April 5, 2013

You've heard of Urban Cowboys........yes? Well, meet Urban Longhorns.

This shot is another from the Lgood archives and is of the cattle drive of Texas Longhorns down the street of the famous Fort Worth Stockyards area. The cattle are driven by cowboys twice a day and are so much fun to see.

From the Fortworth.com website: The Texas Longhorn and the American cowboy are two of the most enduring symbols of the Old West. They're a big reason why Fort Worth earned the nickname "Cowtown." And they formed the core of the great cattle drives of the late nineteenth century. Now, the romance and mystique of cowboys and cattle drives returns to Fort Worth with The Herd - Texas Longhorns driven by genuine Texas cowhands - offering an unforgettable glimpse into the past. You'll hear the jingle of spurs, the cattle bawling, and the rhythm of the hoofbeats. As The Herd passes, a bygone era comes to life before your eyes.

"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - George S. Patton

Sorry I've been so missing from comments this week. I promise to try to catch up today & over the weekend before I get to leave again for another business trip on Monday 4/8.

Have some wild-west sort of fun today my friends.

Linda
See photo in original gallery.
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