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Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas

The Texas Quote of the Day is just awesome:

"The Rio Grande is an ancient family of rivers that join as they cross the continent, and each member has its own distinct history and appearance. Spanish sailors who first saw the river named it Rio de las Palmas for the groves of native palm trees that once filled its lower delta. Then the Rio Pecos was discovered on the dry Texas plains, wandering along the edge of the Despoblado. Later, conquistadores charted what they called the Rio Brave del Norte as it flowed from Colorado through the long valley of New Mexico. Finally, traders crossing Chihuahua found the river that they named the Rio Conchos, "river of shells," for the fossils in its bed. When, during the last one hundred years, people began to realize that it was all one great system, the name was enlarged to Rio Grande, great river of destiny."

---- Jim Bones, "Rio Grande: Mountains to the Sea," 1985. Y'all should really read this book and every book by Jim Bones that you can find. His texts mix a geologist's knowledge with the soul of a poet. And his book "Texas West of the Pecos" is really the seed that sprouted and eventually resulted in this page and Traces of Texas. The photographs are stunning, and I realized when I first read it in 1982 that there was a whole visual world out there in West Texas that was so unlike what I grew up in in Central Texas. And it was right after I read it that I went out to the Guadalupes for the first time and hiked into The Bowl and that experience percolated and eventually resulted in Traces.

Huh, I think I bought "Texas West of the Pecos" but never read it.

Cat rolls around like a real goof.

He understands the principle but the timing is a bitch.

Dog is a great cowboy.

The prized Pompadour Cow.

A 3-D model of an Escher work.

I got you guys something. Hope you like it.

Flashback: One year ago (well one year and two days) Donald and Melania Trump cast their votes in the 2024 election.

Steve Inman:

Cops arrest fugitive with an assist from the pavement.

High score on Space Invader.

He takes on all comers, but after he knocks out the first two, the other two say "Nah man we cool."

Content warning: Supposedly a thief has just robbed a car, and escapes on foot, but then the driver races around the block to deliver V6 Justice. To be honest, I don't know if the narrative here -- that this guy got what was coming to him -- is accurate.

I've linked this before: elevator r*pist hits the button to go to the Lobby of Justice.

Cat UNLOADS on fox.

posted by Ace at 07:25 PM

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