Tag: Bolivar Peninsula
Haiku: The Gift
Celebrating kindred spirits, serendipity and Great Blue Herons on the Bolivar Peninsula.
Haiku from Where I Grew Up, the Bolivar Lighthouse, and Please Pray for Mary
A friend of mine from high school posted an absolutely – heartbreakingly – beautiful photo of our lighthouse. On the Bolivar Peninsula.
Haiku: Days Gone By
A haiku for yesterdays, with images from the enigmatic Bolivar Peninsula of my childhood.
Three Haiku from a Day at the Beach, Remembering Dad
Thanksgiving weekend, eight of us family members spanning three generations packed into my Honda Pilot and headed down to the Bolivar Peninsula where I grew up. We were on a mission to visit Dad’s favorite restaurant down there, and remember him. It was a perfect […]
Labor Day: Cherries and Empathy at the Beach
Labor Day weekend of 2000 was the last time I saw my Mom; we shared cherries and empathy at the beach house on the Bolivar Peninsula.
my days by the water
This rough little poem came spilling out of me as I thought of those halcyon sand-ridden childhood days and so many memories flooded in. Everything seemed so safe, so permanent, so lively-lovely in our tiny town of 600, Gilchrist, Texas.
More Winter in Southeast Texas: Birds in Gilchrist
Birds and more birds enjoying the mild winter in Gilchrist, Texas on the Bolivar Peninsula: herons, sandpipers, brown pelicans and seagulls. A great day trip from Houston.