After a hiatus because of the pandemic, Georgetown’s Red Poppy Festival is back again this weekend.   I arrived well ahead of the 10a.m. parade start this morning to avoid parking issues.   By the time I left a little after 1p.m. people were jockeying for my spot.    It’s that popular.   The festival includes the parade, but also music performances, lots of good food, plus a car show, and vendors.   As this is written, the event continues tonight, concluding Sunday.   The post opens with three ladies wearing matching red poppy shoes.   When I first began taking photos 52 years ago, I was a little shy about photographing people so I started taking photos of my own feet.  I called them footographs.  Those shoes brought back that nice memory.  I like the dancers, young and old.  This offering concludes with a photo from the car show.   The miniature schnauzer riding shotgun in a 1957 Chevrolet pickup has a great name:  Chevy.  By the way, I’m not shy anymore, but still anti-social. 

Some photos taken this week at the Circleville ranch of good friend Carol Fox.   Carol has two horses, Benny and Martini.  I wanted a good photo of them together, but settled for one of Benny near day’s end on a cloudy day.   The others are along the road that leads into the ranch.  Wildflowers are strutting their stuff.   Remember to cherish the environment, even when it’s not Earth Day.

This photo, taken a little north of Thrall, is nowhere near perfect, but I wanted to snap a photo before all these bluebonnets go to seed.   That’s a lot of wildflowers.   Most days I try to pay homage to my little bit of the Earth in our corner of the world.   Each day is Earth Day.

Tonight I attended this year’s first  Music On Main, a series of free concerts held the third Thursday of the month at Taylor’s Heritage Square Park.   The family-friendly (and dog-friendly) events are coordinated the Taylor Public Arts Advisory Board and the City of Taylor.   It’s an inexpensive way to enjoy time with family and friends, including our furry ones!

Few things rise above the end of another quiet day on the Blackland Prairie.   You know this, but I continue to be enamored with windmills.  They speak to the rich history of farm country.

The wheat crop is beginning to look pretty nice this year.   It’s still in its green phase for now, but will evolve as the season progresses.

Seen this morning on my daily walk.   I guess you could call it street photography, but it’s just recording the little slices of life as they come up.   I can relate to this couple.   My wife’s been cutting my hair for years.   Another photo taken with that little Olympus, my “walking camera.”

Just tossing stuff out there tonight.   I do enjoy our prairie sunsets.

A few photos from “Something Rotten,” soon to open this Friday at the wonderful Georgetown Palace.   The show was originally supposed to open last Friday, but a cast member’s positive COVID test merited a cautious change in schedule.   These are photos taken Friday evening in a very safe environment.  Until they took the stage, the actors donned face masks.   The rest of us had on masks for the duration.    I’m hopeful the actors and crew will go forward with the theater’s latest musical.

A weekend filled with clouds, but little rain, was replaced tonight by a Blackland Prairie sunset in this scene recorded tonight  east of Granger.   Let’s hope for healing rain, but try to appreciate nature’s gifts, too.